“As good as being there.” That’s the very professional blog created by the folks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso for FARA’s General Assembly and 5th African Agriculture Science week. We’ve linked to the programme before now, and invited submissions, but now we — and you — have a direct line to the goings on. ((There’s also the inevitable Twitter feed, of course.)) Of particular interest so far, the presentation by Bioversity International’s DG Emile Frison on diversity and nutrition, and a wee bit about pollinator diversity.
The Fara week 2010 blog is on our radar, and it raises an interesting question: what happens to the blog and the information in years to come? One-off, purpose-built blogs like this are great, especially when they’re as well put together as this one, but do they have a sustainability plan?
LATER: Oh, and Jules Pretty is pretty good on why everything you think you know about African agriculture is wrong.