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Category: Breeding

Posted on October 24, 2006October 26, 2006

India has rice stuff, rices to occasion

India’s Financial Express has an interesting article on India’s efforts to breed better rice, including by using … gasp … biotechnology!

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Fresh Nibbles

    • All of IFAD’s 5 investments that will help nourish the world need crop diversity. Prove me wrong.
    • And yet we still have to have articles on communicating the importance of genebanks.
    • Cosmos tries to do it by pointing to the science.
    • Smithsonian Magazine tries to do it by saying it’s tricky.
    • Genebanks try to do it by having nice new websites and talking to the media. Some of the biggest media.
    • CGIAR tries to do it by calling them an Accelerator.
    • IIED tries to do it by saying even botanic gardens can help farmers.
    • SwissAid thinks “[n]ational and international gene banks should give farmers’ organizations low-threshold access to their collections.” No argument there.
    • Maybe we should have songs about genebanks, like the Maxakali have about the Atlantic Forest.
    • Or we could just talk about food, food, glorious food.
    • Could also just fall back on the good old canonical lost-heirloom-apple-found story.
    • Or the canonical medical case for “ancient grains” story.
    • Though even there the heirlooms vs hybrids debate will rage I suppose…
    • But, whatever we do, let’s not take it to extremes, shall we?

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