- Yet another blog post about heirloom apples. Why not heirloom, I don’t know, grains?
- Yet another genebank opens.
- On the other hand, can never have too many agrobiodiversity songs.
- Banks? someone mention banks? Biodiversity hotspots are like (some) banks. Too big to fail.
- Even crop wild relative hotspots?
- 1491: Amazon.
- 1493: New England. Hope Charles Mann won’t mind me borrowing his tropes.
- Interesting use of technology to deliver interesting presentation on mainstreaming of nutrition in agricultural development. Anyone know how it was done?
CWR: A shame the article sits behind a paywall.
Video in PPT in video (VPV as the real experts call it): You’ll fall asleep watching this tech demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk2Pt53uluA
Seriously, 1491&1492: the pristine myth of wilderness is captivating. The third part of the BBC documentary ‘Congo’ – ‘Footprints in the Forest’ deconstructed many of the ideals I imagined when at university. Highly recommended. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_(BBC_TV_series)#3._.22Footprints_in_the_Forest.22
Since we are in 1492:
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~alcoze/for398/class/pristinemyth.html
Also a great read:
Conservation in human-modified landscapes
http://www.mail.conbio.net/images/content_publications/Chapter13.pdf