November 2, 2011November 2, 2011 by Jeremy Cherfas

Nibbles: Oca, Blog, Phones, UPOV, Finding seeds

Someone else is interested in breeding oca for outside the Andes.
Not to be outdone, the World Agroforestry Centre has a blog.
Which somehow missed this story — Study finds mobile phones empower rural farmers — from World Agroforestry Centre.
The Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) has a new portal with added database goodness. Luigi dons his spelunking gear.
No thanks, no need. From now on, like this guy in Hawaii, I’m googling.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

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?
Published on October 17, 2024