- Community management of pests is less efficient (in Spanish). Something to do with farmers not sharing information quickly enough.
- Birds help to control vineyard pests.
- Small-scale farmers can feed the world, as any fule kno.
- Smithsonian celebrates urban ag. Meh.
- Organic food festival Dec 16th, Ahmedabad, India. “The food items should necessarily involve use of indigenous varieties”.
- USDA stops counting sheep. And goats, catfish and hops, among others.
The bird/vineyard study was done by a former student of mine, who also worked on birds on Chiapas coffee farms. Love these roundups!
That’s so cool; small world and all. Maybe they’d like to share a “behind the study” type blog post, here or elsewhere?