Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
That’s the catchy title of a forthcoming conference on African indigenous vegetables, to be held 25-28 May 2020 in Arusha, Tanzania. Here’s the somewhat more clunky subhead: An All-Africa Summit on Diversifying Food Systems with African Traditional Vegetables to Increase Health, Nutrition and Wealth. Regular readers of this blog will know that we have a …
Conservation genetics papers from Latin America, courtesy of special issue of the Journal of Heredity. No ag, but no problem. African aquaculture takes off. Or perhaps rises to the surface would be more appropriate. Expert parses what experts said “sustainable intensification” means. Leafy greens and wine good for oldies. Good to know. Student Organic Seed …
The Gregor Mendel Foundation, established in 2002, proposes to focus on the importance and innovative potential of plant breeding. The founders are personalities and families with dedication to plant breeding for generations. The “Gregor Mendel Innovation Prize” is awarded to individuals who rendered outstanding services to innovation in plant breeding. Delighted to hear that this …
True to my word in yesterday’s post, here’s a picture of John Wasswa Mulumba, head of the Ugandan national genebank. He’s bottom right corner. I missed one or two of the other genebank managers who came to the meeting in Arusha a couple of days ago. If you’re one of them, or were there and …
I suspect that our brief post a couple of weeks back encouraging everybody to follow the fun that assorted genebank managers were having in Arusha may have been a little too short of context to engage all but the most diehard of readers. So here’s the deal. All the genebank managers of the CGIAR centres …