- Stefano Padulosi of Bioversity tweets from the IUCN conference in Korea. And here’s another way of following proceedings: The Twitter Hub.
- ICARDA forced to relocate.
- Results of survey of farmer adaptation strategies in East Africa. (And CIFOR has more examples.) So why do they need Climate Analogues then? I mean, given what we know about it and all… Oh come on, it’s not as bad as all that, look they’re even using it in Costa Rica. Nobody likes a whiny user. Ok, ok, fair enough.
- Branding not much use to farmers.
- Kenyan banker agrees with my mother-in-law on the usefulness of trees.
IUCN Conference:
The reports from the various sections of this conference are rubbish. I started commenting (where this was permitted) but soon gave up faced with (from `Nature and Climate Change’): “REDD must use a decentralized approach focused on benefit sharing of natural resources as well as contribute to poverty reduction with clear proof while promoting techniques on sustainable agriculture away from shifting cultivation.”
Conservationist have been throwing farming communities out of protected areas for over half a century on the U.S. Yellowstone model: they got it wrong and have learnt nothing. IUCN are now trying to increase land-based protected areas to 17% (food, anyone?) and still attack shifting cultivation, (perhaps the most diverse, sustainable, and knowledge-intensive way of producing food).