Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
When I was asked recently whether I knew of anyone developing mobile phone apps “which can assist with seed diversity” my first reaction was: nah. And that’s where I left it. For a couple of hours, at any rate. Because then my second reaction kicked in: but wouldn’t it be cool to have one? Or …
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Smart phones are being used to map invasive plants. Why not crop wild relatives? Or other agrobiodiversity for that matter.
Bees under lots of “sub-lethal stresses.” I know how they feel. Hadzabe, who have been doing it for thousands of years, to be trained in honey production. Chinese farmers to be taught law of diminishing returns. “Workers at the Egyptian Desert Gene Bank in Cairo harvest and grow threatened desert species in its laboratory before …
Indigenous Grasses for Rehabilitating Degraded African Drylands. Promising results, but it’s not easy. Variability in the Global Proso Millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) Germplasm Collection Conserved at the ICRISAT Genebank. Asian, European and mixed clusters, based on morphology. Out of over 800 accessions, 3 (IPm 2069, IPm 2076 and IPm 2537) are rich in grain Fe, …
Unusual story linking the adoption of new varieties with the possible loss of old ones. Unusual story linking climate change with orange juice. Unusual story linking mobile phones with debatable development impacts. Story on an unusual, new(ish) USDA genebank. Not very unusual story about the C sequestration impacts of agroforestry.