- Probably way more than you ever need to know about FIGS. In one handy PowerPoint.
- The British love affair with the apple comes to a head. And goes over the top.
- 100 years of the Paddy Breeding Station. No, nothing to do with the Irish.
- Another damn app competition.
- Geographical Indications in Brazilian law deconstructed.
- Not too late for a cappuccino. But make mine a civet cat shit one.
- More rewriting of Amazon pre-history.
- Marianne North, botanical artist, in the Amazon and elsewhere, remembered.
- Starting now FAO Symposium: applying information on food and nutrition security to better decision making. There’s even a hashtag — #isfsi2012 — but nobody seems to be using it.
AgroBiodiversity Ireland 2012
What would Erna Bennett do? Go to it, for sure. You do too, if you can. And blog it for us, naturally.
Think of an app, win a trip to Delhi
What’s that you say? You do have some ideas for mobile phone apps in support of agrobiodiversity for development? Well, maybe you can win a trip to New Delhi to present it to the 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication on Development. But you’ll have to hurry.
Contacting Trevor Williams
We have received a request from Roger Croston to post the following on the blog, and are happy to do so. Trevor Williams was the first director of the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (now Bioversity International), and another significant figure in the early days of the PGR conservation movement.
After searching for many years I am now back in contact with Trevor
Williams — best known to many as “JT”.
He is now back in England at his Stockport address for those who have
it. I would also be more than happy to forward messages to him on
anyone’s behalf. Please give me your postal address and ‘phone numbers
so that he can reply. JT is currently not on email. He is most keen to
hear from friends and colleagues. (He had been in intensive care in
hospital with breathing difficulties but he is now home and is gradually
improving, I am pleased to say).
Email: rogerc “at” croston-engineering “dot” co “dot” uk
Social networking success stories
I think the time has come to acknowledge the great work that Sue Grimbly is doing at the SCI’s Horticulture Technical Interest Group on Facebook. Consistently interesting posting. And since I’m at it, let me also mention another Facebook group, Radix Root Crops, “[i]ndependent plant breeders collaborating to bring new root and tuber crops into cultivation in temperate climates.” The passion really comes through. But is it the beginning of the revolution?