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Category: Forests & trees

Posted on September 24, 2007September 24, 2007

NTFP and poverty

Collecting wild foods an “efficient method of subsistence.”

Posted on September 19, 2007September 19, 2007

Shifting the story on shifting cultivation

Shifting cultivation is generally reckoned to be not such a good idea. Eldis, the information service, has details of a report that says it can be OK, at least in the eastern Himalayas and under the right circumstances. Unfortunately the report itself seems to be behind a paywall, so I’ve been unable to read it. But I wonder, can shifting cultivation really support growing populations?

Posted on September 13, 2007

New Agriculturist

Latest New Agriculturist: focus on non-wood forest products.

Posted on September 10, 2007September 10, 2007

Forest cover increases in El Salvador

Trees grow on money.

Posted on September 6, 2007

Scottish oaks

Protecting an ancient oak forest in Scotland.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Times of India says “India needs a new doomsday seed vault.” Why not just use the one already there in Svalbard?
    2. Meanwhile, women in the Sundarban are doing it for themselves.
    3. Maybe it’s community doomsday seed vaults that India needs?
    4. Fiji’s cassava is facing a doomsday of its own.
    5. Georgia — the country — is working on a documentary on crop diversity which will no doubt include their seed deposit in Svalbard.
    6. Kenya has a pretty good community genebanks video of its own.
    7. Nigeria is all over crop diversity. Not just once, but twice.
    8. Coffee prices going up? Can you imagine what will happen if we don’t conserve enough of its diversity?
    9. Want more examples of the coolness of crop diversity and its guardians? Slow Food has your back.
    10. La Via Campesina needs to encouragement either, where “peasant seeds” and their guardians are concerned.
    11. Even the World Economic Forum wants in on the act.
    12. And yet the seed sector seems…reluctant?
    13. Good job Genesys is getting faster, eh?

    Published on June 2, 2025

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