- “How the global banana industry is killing the world’s favorite fruit.” Eye-popping headline, but I can see what they mean.
- “We won! EU parlament [sic] rejects seed regulation!” Hmmmn.
Ask Luigi anything
Oh my. Quest Science is digging into Svalbard. I wonder what they’ll turn up.
Did you know there is a state-of-the-art seed vault buried deep inside a mountain on a remote island near the North Pole? Now is your chance to ask a scientist more about this initiative to safeguard the future of the world’s crop diversity. Post your questions in the comments below or send a tweet to @QUESTScience with the hashtag #QUESTseedvault.
QUEST’s television host, Simran Sethi, will do a Google+ Hangout with Luigi Guarino, Senior Scientist with Global Crop Diversity Trust, in early April. We look forward to including some of your questions in the conversation!
Featured: Aid
Ed Carr explains my over-compressed Nibble about his recent post on aid and development:
I was arguing more about how we think about adaptation, and who is doing the adapting. Obviously adaptations will have to occur in some systems, but I am concerned that development donors and implementers too often assume that all such adaptations will have to come from outside the communities and countries in which they are needed. And this is a problem related to how we see those in the Global South – a persistent narrative of poor and helpless that causes us to overlook their capabilities, and to overestimate our own…
Indeed.
Seed film seeks viewers
So there’s yet another movie about the story of seeds. I think we’ve talked a bit before about Open Sesame the Story of Seeds but frankly it is hard to be sure. Anyway, this latest effort is ready for its close-up, with a new (to me) system for release. And I quote:
Here’s how it works:
- Individuals request the film.
- When enough people in a given community buy tickets – the film screens at their local theater.
- Otherwise no credit cards are charged and the request is cancelled.
Obviously this is a super-parochial US-only thing, but being good citizens of the world, we won’t hold that against it.
Any if you and a bunch of like-minded people in your given community actually get to see it, why not write a review for us?
Nibbles: Mango, Money, Holy guacamole
- “Top 8 Wonderful Things You Can Do With A Mango.” Kenyan clickbait. I bought it.
- “Third Call for Project Proposals under the Treaty’s Benefit-sharing Fund.” Seed Treaty clickbait. I’m not qualified.
- “Guacapocalypse” — a headline to reckon with. Here’s the back story to climate change and avocados.