- Why do Afghani farmers grow the “wrong” crop? Because they can.
- Ancient bison DNA “could help improve modern agricultural livestock and breeding programs”.
Nibbles: Apples, Rangeland degradation
- Woman discovers marketable new apple. Good news.
- Mongolian blogger thinks rangeland sustainability “projects should do more work in people’s mind than on the rangeland.”
Featured: Eggs
Give us the gift of your indigenous knowledge
I know it is impossible to believe, but we’ve been straining nourishing chunks from the effluvium that courses through the interwebs for three whole years. Would you do something for us?
“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is the English proverb that sums up the value of agricultural biodiversity better than almost anything else. 1
Are you aware of equivalents in other languages? Stick them in the comments. Please. We’ll do something with them, eventually.
Featured: Mind the gap
Staffan at Gapminder wants you to play:
Please, when you or your visitors find some interesting combination or revelation from the graphs, please let us know. We are soon going to implement a new function where we hint of some of the interesting facts that can be found in the graphs with the possibility to add some explaining text to each graph. We therefore need good stories to tell from the graphs. Just drop us a line if you have an example you want to share with the world!
As if we needed encouraging.