Canada meets sorghum, impressed.
BBC World to screen biodiversity documentary
People with access to BBC World TV channel, stand by for a treat. Tomorrow night (i.e. Friday 15 February 2008) at 20.30 GMT you can watch Forbidden Fruit, latest in the Earth Report series produced by Television Trust for the Environment. The programme follows two somewhat different scientists. Stefano Padulosi, of Bioversity International, works with colleagues from the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in India to reinvigorate millets for nutrition and income. Isabella dalla Ragione runs Archeologi Arborea, an Italian organization dedicated to rediscovering, conserving and distributing long-lost varieties of fruit.
https://agro.biodiver.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/fruittve.movAbove (if the technology works) you should be able to see a clip from the film. (If not, consider going to the Earth Report page at TVE, and accept my apologies. Consider, too, getting a decent web browser.)
Agricultural Biodiversity Symposium
In celebration of UC Davis’ 100th anniversary, the campus will host an international conference focused on agricultural biodiversity — the concept that it is important to make use of and conserve a variety of plant and animal species in commercially viable agricultural operations.
More details of the symposium — scheduled for 14-18 September 2008 — from the web site. And, as ever, if anyone who is going wants to write it up for us, we’re always open.
Knowledge management for agricultural innovation
How to get Bolivian farmers to do what’s good for them; a case study.
Happy birthday, Charles
Let us not forget, that before The Origin and natural selection there was artificial selection; in other words, plant and animal breeding, mostly in the service of agriculture.
So, Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin. There’s a whole lot of stuff going on today, which has quite a history.
One more substantive link will do, to the Biodiversity Heritage Library‘s entry for today.
Oh no! Waylaid by Wikipedia I discover that today is also the anniversary of the Battle of the Herrings, which took place in 1429. Fishy, huh?