- A well-briefed Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, reflects on biodiversity for food and agriculture as a public good. Video. Comments closed!
- UK genebanks are wonderful, says chair of British Society of Plant Breeders.
- Getting ready for a possible ban on pig castration, the Nordic Food Lab tells us how to deal with Boar Taint.
- The things you can learn from strawberries (if you can hold off eating them).
- More money for research on organic agriculture shock plea.
- HRH Prince Charles didn’t use the R-word, but you know he might just possibly agree.
- I wonder whether he realises that the evolution of resistance by insect pests is predictable.
- If cassava is such a Rambo root, how come it quivers before a fly? Even a super-fly?
- And if that isn’t enough to keep you busy over the weekend, how about celebrating World Gin Day tomorrow, with a good book (and a glass) in hand, natch.
I live on a different planet to De Schutter. But he did use our word `agrobiodiversity’ twice and agroecology not at all, so he is getting better. But where did he get the bit: “Monocultures would continue to spread without the Commission”? Did they stop spreading? And where will the idea that agrobiodiversity is a `global commons’ lead when centres of origin and diversity of crops are still in trauma over `biopiracy’?