Category: Genetic diversity

• “Times are hard; everybody wants more (but seems to be getting less…)…”
• “The panels will produce enough energy to power all of the bank’s seed stores.”
• “One of the Benefit-sharing Fund’s unique features is the transparent process that governs the allocation of funds. After a wide announcement of each call, all the project proposals received for funding are evaluated according to established scientific criteria by international experts in order to fund the best projects.”
• “Basically we’re going to add bullets (siRNA) to the plants’ defense arsenal. It’s science fiction right now, but if it works, then the lengthy, expensive cleanup process could be shortened to two minutes.”
• “A new website provides examples of policies, institutions and stakeholders involved in the management of zoonoses, collated in a meta-database, together with discussion of cross-cutting themes and case studies to illustrate potential approaches.”
• “…the polka-dotted pumpkins were a hit.”
• “We all know this wasn’t the meeting where world governments were going to rise from the ashes.”
• “The tradition of micro-beekeeping has completely disappeared.”
• “No one buys beans, but they do buy cilantro.”
• “Teaming up with Alex Thanthriarachchi, 62, a reformed militant Marxist, Wijertane is on a mission to promote indigenous varieties of rice and other staples as the best way for Sri Lankan farmers to deal with changing climate.”
• “As a metaphor for itself, the treaty is the seed that is there and has been planted. It now needs to be used by all countries in order to keep sustaining life.”