- One (admittedly fairly big) thing to do to fix the food system.
- Two-faced fique.
- 14 minutes — count them — on the Land Institute’s work on perennial cereals. Well worth it.
- 18 graphics to explain the food system. You know, the one that needs fixing.
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
“18 graphics to explain the food system”: This is an attempt by the WRI, head office in Washington D.C., to mess up agriculture in developing countries. One try-on is to advise oil palm plantations in Indonesia on what they call `low-carbon degraded lands’ now occupied by Imperata cylindrica. Don’t do it, Indonesia. This is bad advice. At least for Indonesia – but for all the soybean farmers in the US exporting all that soy oil (competing with palm oil) globally it might be a good thing. Indonesia should use its low plant diverse, carbon rich peat swamp forests for oil palm. It is not the job of farmers in Indonesia to make amends for the vast carbon dioxide output of the U.S. A. The only reference to support WRI in their big report `Creating a Sustainable Food Future: Interim Findings’ is a paper on `Sustainable oil palm development on degraded lands in Kalimantan’ from WWF – another `wildlife before farmers’ operation publishing out of Washington D.C. This is getting to be a bit blatant.