- The Archaeobotanist reviews the domestication and spread of bananas …
- … and says that bananas weren’t important to the first farmers of Central Africa.
- New York Times blog dissects the climate change and agriculture paper that’s making waves.
- But biodiversity loss is a bigger threat than climate change. No mention of ag; do these guys ever talk to one another?
- In India, children of women who farm their own land are less malnourished.
- So what if 11 plant species “account for 93 percent of all that humans eat”? Rachel Laudan thinks that fine, and I agree.
- The patent on one of the Roundup-Ready genes is about to expire. So?
Check out Angela Kepler & Frank Rust’s new book “The World of Bananas in Hawaii: Then and Now”
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8749-9780983726609.aspx