Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Occasionally — just occasionally — Genebank Database Hell doesn’t live up to its fearsome reputation. Or maybe it’s just diminished expectations on my part, I’m not sure. Anyway, Eurisco confirms that the Irish onion called Buan Jeremy blogged about yesterday is found in the genebanks at Warwick and VIR. Interestingly, a grand total of 7 onions of Irish origin are in existence in the world’s genebanks, most of them at VIR. Thank goodness for Europe’s amateur heirloom gardeners, eh?
Dave at Osage + Orange has got the early harvest in with a round-up of the best botanical blogging around in this month’s Berry go Round. There are trees, hedges, haystacks and much, much more. Go, read, link (and consider submitting to A DC Birding Blog for Sep[tember.
We have a new time-waster to share. Global Giving, a meta-NGO we’ve raved about before, has just launched its globalgiving storytelling project. Why?
We’re trying to break through the self-report bias that often prevents international development from having a larger impact.
With this community-based beneficiary feedback we’re identifying community-focused organizations, good listeners, potential innovators, and we’re breaking through the self-report bias that often prevents international development from having a larger impact.
It will be interesting to see how this effort develops, and what uses are made of it. Meanwhile, it is easy to emerge from a rabbit-hole to find that half an hour has vanished from your life. We searched on “seed” to get the Wordle picture above. If you find any really great stories that deserve a wider audience, why not share them in a comment here?