- Trees to be barcoded. Including cultivated ones?
- This would be a good place to start.
- Nature Conservancy to relaunch ConserveOnline.org, a free online community for conservation practitioners.
Nibbles: Trees, AGRA, pig meat, culinodiversity, fund raising, seed, data
- Let them eat leaves: farmers to plant trees in Kenya.
- For the archives: Rockefeller Foundation’s original blueprint for A Green Revolution for Africa (PDF).
- Keeping it real, computers and genetics monitor Iberian ham.
- Eat diversity to conserve it.
- Three-headed coconut tree for sale. To you, one million bucks.
- Video on FAO seed project in Afghanistan. I just hope somebody’s taking care of the landraces.
- Scientists exhorted to geo-reference. IRRI GIS staff unavailable for comment.
Non-wood forest products highlighted
The new NWFP-Digest is online, and as usual points to some great information, including lots of stuff on bamboo for some reason this month. And I don’t know how I missed the great article on women cashing in on indigenous trees in Tanzania when it first came out back in March.
Trees growing in Kenya
An ancient post on trees in Kenya has elicited some comments from Victor Mulinge, keeping us up to date on his tree planting activities. I’m promoting his latest to a post to give it the prominence it deserves.
Hi Jeremy,
A while now after new year 2008 kenya was in a dilemna following post election skirmishes but now all is well. Pawpaw trees are now 800, bananas 200 and mangos 700 and still marching on. Now am in search of groundwater for irrigation purposes through tapping rain water by a man made dam which can hold up to 100,000 litres but only for 2 weeks due to evaporation. Hoping all will be good. Keep in touch for positive enviromental upgrades through tree planting.
Thanks Victor, and do keep the information coming.
Nibbles: potato, EU catalogue, trees, cocoa
- Boffins discuss potatoes in Cuzco. The media are duly alerted.
- Dominique Guillet (M. Kokopelli) offers his French history of the EU Common Catalogue. Jeremy comments: “You translate it, we’ll post it”.
- Tanzanian women making money from tree diversity.
- “UK committed to Ghanaian cocoa farmers.” And to cacao diversity?
- Yams in trouble in Nigeria. Make that foufou to go.