A new website to do with agriculture and climate change for you to explore: Climate-Smart Agriculture from FAO. Basically just a static selection of case studies, but interesting for all that, and maybe it will evolve into something a little more interactive. The Challenge Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has a blog if you’re into the whole web 2.0 experience thing.
Nibbles: PNG & CC, Pasture, Nagoya, Sesame, CIMMYT, Oryza, Tradition
- A view from Papua New Guinea on a project to prepare PNG agriculture for climate change.
- How to grow a properly biodiverse pasture. Hint: money isn’t enough.
- Another Nagoya round-up. And another.
- Sesamum monographed.
- Award for CIMMYT genebank.
- African rice domestication deconstructed.
- Traditional practices bad for Nigerian children, good for Chinese fish.
Nibbles: Livestock system resilience, Nepal genebank, Salicornia, GMO risk
- ILRI slideshow on adapting South Asian livestock systems to climate change. And some background.
- Latest on Nepal’s new genebank.
- Salicornia 101.
- GENERA: a database of published, peer-reviewed scientific papers that are related to the risks and safety of genetic engineering in agriculture. Courtesy of Biofortified.
Nibbles: Sierra Leone, Cooking traditions, Value chains, Sorghum, Manihot, AnGR
- Sierra Leone gets back to (rural) work.
- Rachel Laudan not keen on UNESCO protecting culinary traditions.
- Value chains are hard.
- Dual-purpose sorghum in the CGIAR spotlight.
- Andy does cassava. Looks like he may need to buy a house in Bellagio.
- Latest Animal Genetic Resources is out. In other news, there’s an international journal called Animal Genetic Resources.
Nibbles: Ethiopia, India, Japan, Netherlands
- Ethiopia rehabilitating more than 100 wheats and barleys in anticipation of climate change.
- MS Swaminathan Research Foundation makes images available.
- Minor delays on the road to Nagoya Protocol and CBD COP 12 in India.
- Placing ecosystems thinking at the heart of global food security. ILRI prepares for climate gabfest in The Hague.