Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
André Heitz takes on Robert. At length. Robert has raised a series of questions on the “A different view of European seed regulations” post. 1. Why does the EU system not allow non-certified seed to co-exist with certified seed? One would have to check the legislative history. Basically, the national systems all derive from a …
Agricultural trade and its impacts on cropland use and the global loss of species habitat. Rich countries have a large biodiversity footprint outside their borders because they import a lot of agricultural products from areas where biodiversity is disappearing fast. International food trade benefits biodiversity and food security in low-income countries. Ah, but low-income, high …
In my previous post on the new EU Common Agricultural Policy, I missed that it promotes in situ conservation of crops. At least that is my reading of Annex IX, which provides a list of practices equivalent to crop diversification. The text is a bit confusing (why are legal documents never clear?); here’s an excerpt (my bolding): …
Crop pests and pathogens move polewards in a warming world. At 3 km/year. Systems for making NIAS Core Collections, single-seed-derived germplasm, and plant photo images available to the research community. The next level in genetic resources documentation? Recovering Genetic Resources of Some Legume Species of Latvian Origin by Plant Tissue Culture. You have to work …
I’m a little late to the warm beer and stale sandwich that is Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: roles and research priorities in the European Union. This report, issued by the European Academies Science Advisory Council, “draws on” a workshop organised by the Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and sets out to identify …
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