Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Public funding for extension services and agricultural research that improves productivity and yield had to increase rather than relying upon genetically modified organisms.
From the head of UNDP? What kind of a crazy mixed-up world are we living in?
The Guardian has a photo essay on how farmers are trying to cope with climate change in Tajikistan. 1
Turaqulov Saidmuzator, a farmer in Temumalik district, is experiencing the effects of climate change. ‘I think the weather has become warmer in the last four or five years and that is affecting our crops,’ he says. ‘The sickness of our crops is increasing but the pesticides are expensive and we are losing almost 30% of our crops to diseases.’
Andre has “great, great trouble with the data” from that vegetables and PVP paper:
For instance, the table says that no turnip has ever been PVP protected; according to the Office’s data base, two have been. The authors highlighted in a previous paper, with a ‘hurrah’, that Fowler and Mooney made a math error in their 1983 “Shattering…”. They also succumb to a simple subtraction at the bottom of the first column.
There’s more. Over to the authors… BTW, our original source was the CAS-IP blog.