The 6th European Forum on Agricultural Biodiversity will take place from February 25-26 in Szeged, Hungary. The programme looks fun. And they were kind enough to include us on their page of links. We’re more than happy to reciprocate. As ever, there’s space here for anyone who wants to report on the event.
Agricultural data made easier
How many time does it happen that you see something like this picture
and you immediately ask yourself: What kind of yields are we talking about anyway? Just ballpark, mind. But what would constitute a good yield for these farmers looking at different millet landraces and varieties during this field day?
Well, of course there is FAOStat, but that can be clunky. And those colours! So now the good people at HarvestChoice have developed a little widget that makes access to some of FAOStat’s data a lot less painful, including on the eyes. It’s called HappyStat, and this is what it says about millet yields in India:
| Yield, kg ha-1 (Growth Rate, % yr-1) |
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| Crop, Country | 1965 | 1975 | 1985 | 1995 | 2005 |
| MILLET in INDIA |
345 | 554 (2.82) | 457 (0.14) | 679 (4.31) | 750 (1.63) |
| Source: Aggregated from FAOSTAT 2006 |
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Ah, but which millet I hear you ask. And won’t yields differ in different parts of the country? One step at a time, Grasshopper, one step at a time.
LATER: Oh, and by the way, when are we going to see FAOStat data googleized?
Bibbles: Nutrition conference, Arabidopsis tinkering, Grape evolution
- The Leveraging Agriculture: what engaged participants? And the IFPRI contribution. What’s the intersection of those two sets, I wonder.
- Productive means susceptible. Except when it doesn’t. I’m in that kind of mood today.
- The deep origins of Vitis.
Earth Microbiome Project sets an example
Is there any good reason why we should not do this with agrobiodiversity, starting with crops and their wild relatives? In fact, is there any good reason why we have not done it already?
Agriculture being leveraged in Delhi
The IFPRI 2020 Conference on “Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health,” is off and running in New Delhi, India. If you can’t be there in person, at least there’s a Twitter feed. Impressions from participants always welcome.
LATER: There’s a blog too, of course.