- TRAFFIC says many traditional medicines are being over-exploited in Cambodia and Viet Nam. Via .
- New model of development more important than new green revolution, says IICA head.
- Baa baa black sheep, have you any genes?
- Food crisis, energy crisis; what about the water crisis? IWMI resurrects 2007 report. More here.
Apologies
Apologies if you were having a little trouble reaching the site yesterday; so were we. Apparently the server that hosts agro.agro.biodiver.se was under attack from the forces of darkness, but they have now been repelled. We hope we can now resume normal service.
Nibbles: Tangled Bank
- Tangled Bank 109 — a biology blog carnival — is up at Greg Laden’s Blog. There’s livestock!
Sorghum woes in Somaliland
Another farmer speaks:
Worried about the infertility of my farm, the other day, I was sitting alone trying to find explanation as to why my farm was productive in the olden days producing 100 sacks of 50kg each of sorghum in one go and why it is sterile today producing less than 5 sacks a year no matter how hard I may work?
Read the whole lot.
Nibbles: Prices, Info
- Onions, futures, speculation and prices. Weird, and somewhat illuminating.
- New New Agriculturalist, with research, no-till, AGRA and more, much more.