Rice Diversity, a set by IRRI Images on Flickr.
Gosh, what is it lately about really cool sets of agricultural biodiversity photos on social networking sites?
Featured: Livestock data
Many thanks to Susan MacMillan of ILRI for facilitating one of the authors of a paper we nibbled, Dr Delia Grace, to respond to a couple of queries we had yesterday:
As you pointed out, the data on livestock is SSA is very poor. As a result our reasoning was deductive rather than inductive, based on evidence on the links between system change, genetic homogeneity, population density, transmission opportunities, species diversity etc. on disease emergence and endemicity; it was also based on our own experience (between us multiple decades) of livestock epidemiology in Africa. I can’t speak to use in FARA but the thinking around hot and cold spots is feeding into the CGIAR Consortium Research Program on Agriculture, Nutrition and Health. We are hoping this “megaprogram” will give us the opportunity of ground-truthing and quantifying these disease dynamics trajectories.
We really appreciate it when people respond to what we say here. We know they don’t have to. We know they have better things to do. We really appreciate it very much.
Protecting Chinese agricultural biodiversity products
So, in retaliation for Europe protecting Roquefort, Stilton cheese and Scottish farmed salmon (sic.), among other agrobiodiversity products, the Chinese have slapped Protected Denominations of Origin (PDO) on Guanxi honey pomelos, Shaanxi apples and Longjing tea and a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) on Liaxian Mashan yams. 1 Well, no, not really, it was all much more amicable than that. And Dongshan asparagus, Jinxiang garlic, Pinggu peach, Yancheng crayfish and Zhenjiang vinegar are waiting in the wings…
Useful useful plants set on Flickr
Plants – crop wild relative, a set by Arthur Chapman on Flickr.
“Plants either used for food and agriculture or relatives of species that are so used. Includes images of plant species taken in fruit and vegetable markets around the world.”
Keeping bees in Hong Kong
I can’t resist sharing this wonderful video about a guy I found, well, inspirational is the only way I can describe him. And believe me, I don’t often use that word, at least about people. Clicking on the photo will take you to Vimeo. Thanks, Grist.