February 7, 2011February 7, 2011 by Jeremy Cherfas

Nibbles: Taro, Organics, Chickens, Cuba, Fishfood,

How to build a taro garden; the straight dope from Queen Emma (1836-1885).
Organic agriculture in Kibera, Kenya; the straight dope from the BBC (slideshow)
Chinese chicken merchants undercut locals; welcome to the market, Zambia.
UN to preserve Cuban agrobiodiversity? Who knows, no straight dope to be had.
Research proves new soybean meal sources are good fish meal alternatives. So that’s alright then.

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1. Big IUCN report says that biodiversity and agriculture are in conflict, they don’t really need to be, but it’s really complicated for them not to be. So that’s us all told.
2. If only annual crops were perennial, for example, eh?
3. If only we incorporated more sustainable agriculture in education, for example, eh? Apart from anything else we could still have beer. No word on the role of perennial barley though.
4. If only improved seeds were open source, for example, eh?
5. If only we could cryopreserve coral, for example, eh? Wait, what?
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