- The UNU-WIDER Project on “African Development: Myths and Realities” looks at the reasons put forward for Africa’s disappointing development record, attempting to differentiate between myth and reality. Via CAPRi News.
- Stirring up the organic is better hornet’s nest
- “Brits use wild horses to promote biodiversity.” A rare breed, too.
- back40 is bothered by the lack of real progress on biochar.
Featured: Bio-geekery
A major row breaks out over the Church of the Bio-Geek.
tai haku gets in an early jab:
I’ll be honest and admit I found the glass flowers slightly underwhelming.
Mary parries:
That’s funny, that’s pretty much how I felt about the mammal room. It smelled of formaldehyde, and was the sort of standard and underwhelming collection of roadkill under glass that I did expect.
tai haku comes back for more:
The mammal room was “interesting”. … I suspect the place is probably quite tight for funds – I’d love to have access to that collection and a huge dollop of cash to make the place over, it has the makings of a fabulous facility.
And there we leave them. What’s your view?
Make it so!
You have spoken, and by a narrow margin, you wanted a few more full items on the home page. So be it, five instead of three. We’ll let that settle down before we reassess. Unless there’s something you really, really would like us to change.
Nibbles: Bee genes, Organics, Swaminathan, Apples, Africa, Late blight, More bees, Agroforestry
- USDA screens bee genes, does not find smoking gun.
- Organic industry needs to focus on “wider benefits to avoid losing customers to other ethical issues”. Er … right.
- M.S. Swaminathan talks to the Wall Street Journal. With added video goodness.
- UK newspaper discovers the threatened home of the wild apple.
- Sustainable farming is the way forward for Africa. Course it is.
- Blight resistant potatoes. No, really. They are.
- The Barefoot Beekeeper.
- ICRAF identifies a silver-bullet tree to revive African soils.
Featured: Housekeeping
Not a comment, a reminder.
Jeremy says: If you want to influence the layout of our home page, you need to vote on the poll below the picture before it closes later today. At the moment it looks like we’ll be increasing the number of full posts slightly.