Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
NGOs call on USAID to stop supporting AGRA. And not for the first time either. Report calls for US to invest more in agricultural research in support of global food security. AGRA unavailable for comment. A pean to the fruit trees of the Philippines. I’ll second that. Scuba rice comes to Africa. What took it …
Nutritional profiling and GIS-based grid mapping of Job’s tears (Coix lacryma-jobi L.) germplasm. 2 genebank accessions out of 32 are especially good. Diversity and Adaptation of Currently Grown Wheat Landraces and Modern Germplasm in Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey. Some wheat landraces were just as productive as modern varieties, so crossing landraces with other landraces could …
Wild spuds to the rescue. Won’t be much use in NW Nigeria, alas. Livestock might, though. Wait wait wait… Ok, start again, how about wild rice in situ then?
There’s a series of interactive workshops to gather feedback on how to measure the Global Burden of Crop Loss. I want an initiative on the Global Burden of Crop Diversity Loss though. Soil data makes its way to Google Maps. CONABIO has some really excellent agrobiodiversity posters and other resources. Calabazas and amaranth are just …
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Plant Health, Animal Health, Human Health and Environmental Health. What’s not to like? It used to be thought that tobacco and sugar could help with the above. Go figure. La Cuna del Maíz Mexicano. The same, but for rice in Asia. Backyard seed saving, and science.