- Mapping Life is live. Will livestock and crops eventually be there?
- How Valuing Nature Can Transform Agriculture. Errr … dunno. Is this really brainfodder?
- A humble agronomist considers the de-commoditisation of quinoa in Bolivia.
- Bioversity says that forest restoration should make better use of genetic diversity.
Jeremy: The `valuing nature’ is the same old stuff about agroecology: academics and foundations in the USA trying (and failing) to stem the flood of agricultural exports from Latin America. They repeat the same errors as the failed IAASTD report, which massively promotes `agroecology’ for Latin America and hardly at all from elsewhere (from the five regional reports – Sub-Saharan Africa, 2 mentions; Central and West Asia and North Africa, 2; North America and Europe, 2; East and South Asia and the Pacific, 8; Latin America and the Caribbean, 151 mentions). All about less food production and more `wildlands’ in Brazil.
And could somebody please explain what the `ecological principles’ are that underpin the magic bullet of agroecology? It’s currently all smoke and mirrors.