Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Andy Jarvis and his parents pause for a photograph during the drunken revelries which followed his acceptance of the Ebbe Nielsen Prize in Copenhagen last Tuesday (Picture credit: Ciprian Vizitiu).
Our friend, colleague and occasional contributor Andy Jarvis received GIBF‘s Ebbe Nielsen Prize for innovative bioinformatics research last night in Copenhagen. Andy has been doing his trademark work on the spatial analysis of crop wild relative distributions ((The maps below are an example. They show the modeled distribution of species richness in the genus Phaseolus …
Don’t underestimate the importance of a new book on the Irish Famine, despite the weird construction used in praising it. Impossible to overestimate the importance of crop breeding for climate change adaptation. And would you like a presentation with that? Cannot underestimate the diversity of early Neolithic diets. No, wait. Difficult to overestimate the contribution …
Listen to our friend, colleague and occasional contributor Andy Jarvis talk about his quest to document the predicted effect of climate change on the world’s top 50 crops. Via.
I challenged our friend Andy Jarvis to summarize his just-out paper (with assorted co-authors) in Nature Climate Change ((Rippke, U., Ramirez-Villegas, J., Jarvis, A., Vermeulen, S., Parker, L., Mer, F., Diekkrüger, B., Challinor, A., & Howden, M. (2016). Timescales of transformational climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan African agriculture Nature Climate Change DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2947)) in a …