Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Hoary zombie gender myths bite the dust. Wish the same could be said of agrobiodiversity myths… The first cabbage, according to the ancient Greeks. A myth we can all get behind. WWF maps deforestation hotspots. Like the whole of Sumatra. Profits not the (only) point of urban farming. Maintaining food culture by gardening in a …
Camelina as a sustainable oilseed crop: Contributions of plant breeding and genetic engineering. It will help that it’s close to Arabidopsis. Sustenance and sustainability: maximizing the impact of school gardens on health outcomes. You need proper experimental design if you’re going to say that such an impact exists. But such an impact probably exists, sometimes. …
Cutting down forests worsened ancient Mayan droughts. And (among other things) did for the Maya. And despite the Mayan end of the world being near, the French are revitalising agroforestry. The Financial Times wrote about One Acre Fund’s work to reduce agrobiodiversity in Kenya, then put it behind a paywall (for me). So One Acre …
Good news from Russia: A genebank in the permafrost. Yup, another one. Good news from Guatemala: Urban gardens for health and wealth. Good news from West Africa (which we know is not a country): magic cassava. Good news from Brazil: the World Congress on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Stability will prevent empty promises …
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What’s not to like? This post is simply an abuse of authorial rights to promote a project. I just received the second project report from Educate 1300 Girls By Restoring A Marrakech Garden, which I am supporting via Global Giving. Why that project? Because it is relevant to me in all sorts of ways. Maybe …
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