Who to believe?

RSS feeds can be pretty unforgiving, capturing those momentary lapses that not even the fastest fingers can recover. Take, for example, Exhibit A, pictured below. (Click to embiggen.)

Someone clearly thought better about the “fact” that a genetically modified cowpea (“actually a bean”) could generate US$1 billion for small farmers. So it got downgraded to a claim by scientists 1 that will still deliver US$1 billion … without specifying to whom exactly.

The story? Oh, you don’t want to bother with that.

Featured: Conservation

Peter Matthews attempts to mediate between agriculture and nature:

I think if the nature-conservation ethic could extend further into agricultural landscapes, then there would be more room to extend the development-ethic into natural landscapes. Lets say 20% for nature, 60% for nature and us, and 20% just for us? What are we aiming for, if we have any aims?

So, let’s all hear it for the Satoyama Initiative and “socio-ecological production landscapes”?

Nibbles: Melongena, Nutrition, Wheat, Pavlovsk, Farming, Phosphate, Lesotho, Almonds

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