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Nibbles: Climate change and Haiti, Climate change and aid, Mushroom farming in Kenya
- CIAT examines the climate change options for coffee and mongo in Haiti.
- Edward Carr reckons that from an aid donor’s perspective, adapting agriculture to climate change isn’t such a great idea.
- Neither has anything to say about this how-to guide to mushroom farming in Kenya.
Grapes or rootstocks
One item of agricultural biodiversity interest from my visit to Bologna last weekend, this rather charming 1926 poster. ((Apologies for the quality. I took it after a rather wonderful lunch at Il Tinello, and alcoholic beverages had been involved.)) It offers, as you can see, American vines. And here’s my question: varieties, or Phylloxera-resistant rootstocks?
Livestock are how much?
I just think you should see this, from my favourite comic on the web.
Nibbles: Seeds for Needs, Agroecology, Costa Rican climate change, Pollinators
- IFAD and Bioversity, sitting in a tree …
- Don’t mimic nature on the farm.
- But don’t ignore it either. Learn from nature.
- Costa Rican farmers have done both, to adapt to climate change.
- There’s no imitating pollinators though.