I’m spending the week here for work and could not resist the temptation to do some advertising for Ethiopia’s Institute of Biodiversity Conservation, one of the world’s premier genebanks. So check out their website. And read a bit about them in the news.
Controlling bacterial wilt
Another reason why intercropping is a good idea.
Chicken maps
Global chicken density maps, courtesy of ILRI, my hosts for this week.
Revitalizing Kenya’s drylands
The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) has just kicked off a Kenya Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Research Programme (KASAL) with funding from the European Union. Assistant Minister for Science and Technology, Mr Hassan Sasura, said at the launch that “the fragile pastoralist economies required product diversification and value addition to root out poverty and marginalisation.” That seems to give at least some hope that the programme will pay due attention to the importance of agricultural biodiversity. Let’s hope so.
Chilean salmon farming
WWF recommends how salmon farming and beautiful Chilean lakes can co-exist.