GIS – Page 144 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

Nibbles: Olive oil, Soil, Heirloom varieties

USDA boffins tour Aussie garbage dumps.
Today’s “Save the British X” (where X=a fruit of your choice) story comes to you from The Times.
And today’s multiple independent domestications story comes from India.
And today’s how to boost urban biodiversity? From Brighton, UK.
Mapping Russian crops and their pests.
Kenyan government messing with prices to clear wheat market, boost neglected species.
Our friends at the Global Facilitation Unit (for Neglected and Underutilised Species) have published a book.

A video on capturing, sharing and interacting with spatial information on the miombo woodlands of Malawi. Via.

Convention on Biological Diversity’s head “Highlights Risks of Agricultural Biodiversity Loss.”
Cowpooling. Guess what it means.
Training opportunity: A global view of livestock biodiversity and conservation.
FAO policy brief on sustainable development and agrobiodiversity. Thanks, Eve.
The wonders of solanaceous grafting. Thanks, Jules.
Build a better nutcracker. And then analyze all that data.
Mapping cyclone damage to crops in Myanmar.
Quantifying Micronesian diets. Thanks, Lois.
Things picking up for US bees? Meanwhile, in China, they’re trying breeding.

“I think that in 20 years chocolate will be like caviar.”
“Why should Africa be the only region in the world that is begging for food?” Hans Herren stiffs it to Jeffrey Sachs.
Mapping, and then protecting, places where wildlife and pastoralists can survive climate change together.
Jessica hearts Moringa. ((How do I get a picture of a heart here?))
Green Wall of Trees to halt Sahara. Will any of them also be directly useful?