- Climate change is going to hit us where we live. Or die.
- How to make GBIF more relevant for agrobiodiversity: a 10-point plan.
- Killer fungi on the loose? ‘Twas ever thus. But genomics will save us?
- Planting trees is good for lions too.
- There are still medieval oaks in England.
- “…where sommelier-like ‘budtenders’ sell gourmet ganja in a designer showroom.”
- Rewilding the wild horse.
- More about the cassava variety Kasetsart 50, poster child for CGIAR impact.
- It’s not just genetic resources that are contested. Yep, agronomy too.
- “Scientific conclusions and business or policy decisions should not be based only on whether a p-value passes a specific threshold.”
GBIF: This is junk. Agrobiodiversity includes not just biota that: “…that contribute to agricultural production” but all the other biota that hammer farming, in particular, when crops are grown in Centres of Origin. It is far worse than junk, it is selective blindness of the history of crop breeding and crop protection and the work of CABI and many others going back more than a hundred years (Bureau of Entomology; Mycology; International Institute of Biocontrol; International Institute of Parasitology) and large parts of the CGIAR.
One of the supporting documents on case studies “Conservation plan for Crop Wild Relatives” asks “what species are classified as CWR” and suggests “same genus as a crop”. No, not even close.
Any institute associated with this stuff deserves a kick in the pants and no funding whatever.