- Hey, let’s clone a plant!
- Agricultural biodiversity in Colombia. Settle down in the back, this is about sustainable intensification.
- They’re at it in Nepal too, using community biodiversity management to, er, manage community biodiversity. Here’s how they restored the Rupa lake watershed.
- Now all the Nepalese need is for some award-winning Masaai film-makers to share their expertise.
Nibbles: Seed law, Bananas, Crop wild relatives, Wheat diversity, Seed libraries
- People are ready with their reactions to the Great EU Seed Law Thing.
- Bananas seem ready once again for their decadal extinction story.
- Those nice people saving crop wild relatives are ready with a new Twitter account to follow.
- The wheat diversity of Nepal will soon be ready for science.
- And The Boston Globe is ready with its own story about seed libraries.
Ask Luigi anything
Oh my. Quest Science is digging into Svalbard. I wonder what they’ll turn up.
Did you know there is a state-of-the-art seed vault buried deep inside a mountain on a remote island near the North Pole? Now is your chance to ask a scientist more about this initiative to safeguard the future of the world’s crop diversity. Post your questions in the comments below or send a tweet to @QUESTScience with the hashtag #QUESTseedvault.
QUEST’s television host, Simran Sethi, will do a Google+ Hangout with Luigi Guarino, Senior Scientist with Global Crop Diversity Trust, in early April. We look forward to including some of your questions in the conversation!
Seed film seeks viewers
So there’s yet another movie about the story of seeds. I think we’ve talked a bit before about Open Sesame the Story of Seeds but frankly it is hard to be sure. Anyway, this latest effort is ready for its close-up, with a new (to me) system for release. And I quote:
Here’s how it works:
- Individuals request the film.
- When enough people in a given community buy tickets – the film screens at their local theater.
- Otherwise no credit cards are charged and the request is cancelled.
Obviously this is a super-parochial US-only thing, but being good citizens of the world, we won’t hold that against it.
Any if you and a bunch of like-minded people in your given community actually get to see it, why not write a review for us?
Crop Trust speaks
Ready for your close-up?