Kiwifruit goes home. ET unavailable for comment.
Seed Savers video
Following my putting up his video of surfing in the Solomons — with ancillary shots of agrobiodiversity — Tony Jansen has pointed out to me that Seed Savers actually have a video on YouTube that is all about agricultural biodiversity. Here it is.
Ethan Zuckerman puts the e- in e-agriculture
Ethan Zuckerman is a well-respected internet guru. He’s got a blog, called My Heart’s in Accra, on which he muses “on Africa, international development and hacking the media.” He was recently at the Web2forDev conference here in Rome, the centrepiece of e-Agriculture week, where he
participated in a very strange panel on eAgriculture, where the main topic of conversation seemed to be the fact that none of the panelists quite knew what eAgriculture was or should be.
That’s from a blog entry with a definite agrobiodiversity vibe, talking as it does about recent innovative solutions to the problem of providing up-to-date price information on commodities to Ethiopian farmers, for example via SMS. Thanks to Kevin for the tip.
The ITPGRFA Governing Body meets
The Second Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is on all week at FAO, Rome. Good opportunity to meet up with old friends. Follow the goings on daily at Earth Negotiations Bulletin.
To cull or not to cull
Apparently the argument about whether it’s a good idea or not to cull badgers in areas of bovine TB incidence in the UK is not over yet. Now a farmer weighs in. Well whatever next!