Boffins keen to get hands on pubic lice. Everybody unavailable for comment.
Ecosystems and Poverty
Our friend Andy Jarvis of Bioversity/CIAT is off and running with his blog on Ecosystems and Poverty. It’s part of the Ecosystems Services & Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) project. Your RSS feed is in our reader, Andy. Welcome to the blogosphere.
King Corn
Here’s an interview with the makers of the documentary King Corn, which is partly about how maize “covers the food landscape,” as well as the actual landscape, in the US.
Village peanut sheller
Wanna add value to peanuts? Here’s one way.
Cutting down on cow emissions
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and ruminant farm animals belch out a huge amount of the stuff. No wonder people are scouring agrobiodiversity for animal feeds that minimise emissions. A paper in Animal Feed Science and Technology ((C.R. Soliva, A.B. Zeleke, C. Clement, H.D. Hess, V. Fievez and M. Kreuzer. In vitro screening of various tropical foliages, seeds, fruits and medicinal plants for low methane and high ammonia generating potentials in the rumen. Animal Feed Science and Technology. Corrected Proof, Available online 18 October 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2007.09.009)) has come up trumps. The researchers found differences in methane production not just among tropical feed species, but also among accessions of Acacia angustissima and Sesbania sesban. Something to add to the list of evaluation descriptors.