Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Matthew is not persuaded by Syngenta’s apparent altruism.
[A]re we to believe that the plant breeding “innovators” that worsened taste, narrowed commercially acceptable color and flavor and form, and decreased nutritional values over the last few decades are now going to fix all that by improving access to IP that they have consolidated into their databases?
Are you?
The next edition of Berry go Round, the botany blog carnival, is almost upon us, and we’re proud to be hosting it right here. Keeping up with the times, you can submit posts using the Twitter hashtag #berrygoround, which the BGR overlord monitors, or direct on the submission form. Official deadline is Friday 25 January. Unofficially, I probably won’t get round to writing it all up before Sunday, for delivery Monday Morning.
‘BIODIVERSITY’
We love animals and green things and we need them for food, houses, to make sick people better, to clean the air and water, to hold down the ground, to know things and to be happy outside. For all of these things, lots of different kinds of animals and green things are better than only a few kinds. So we’re scared because the animals and green things are not safe from some of the things we do, like when we cut trees down, put bad smells in the air, take good things out of the big water and put bad things in and make the air around our rock in space get hot too fast.
Karen James wrote this, using only the thousand most common words.
Stephen Facciola’s Cornucopia is the bible of everyone interested in the oddities of the edible landscape. With it’s densely packed pages, numerous lists, and astonishing detail, it is everything you need wrapped in soft covers. It is also quite old. Now Facciola has posted an advert for a “Photographer, ethnobotanist, foodie”
Applicant will be photographing plants, plant parts, food products, food ingredients, etc., at ethnic and gourmetfood markets, farmers’ markets, germplasm repositories, market gardens, orchards, farms, botanical gardens, and seed banks in the U.S. and overseas. Must be willing to make long term commitment.
I can’t wait to see the results.