- Sustainable alternative to opium. Still waiting for my man.
- “Crop Wild Relative community calls for united global efforts“. Good to know.
- Small-scale coconut growers to benefit from Kasaragod Declaration?
- Australian farmer doubles number of species, doubles yield shock.
- Plant health clinics take expertise where it is needed most. Now for the mobile edition …
- Crowdsourcing improvements to a portal to genetic information. Now there’s an idea.
Nibbles: Fast cowpea, Conference, Rice, Schools
- Anastasia reports on the Biofortification conference: 60-day cowpeas
- Big blog post on even bigger conference on molecular tools for improving vegetatively-propagated crops: banana, plantain and cassava.
- Rice technologists! You need to read this blog post by Prabhu Pingali.
- UK’s Royal Horticultural Society report says school gardens are “vital”.
Biofortification conference on the internet
Tools for non-fools
We often prattle blithely about how exciting this and that might be if only we could gather the data by getting people to do this or that with their mobile phones. Of course, neither of us has any idea what that might entail in real life. Nor do we intend to find out. You, however, may be different, and crying out for the right tools to do the job. Here, then, thanks to a work colleague, are two important documents. An introduction to collecting data from mobile phones, and the associated matrix comparing different tools.
So off you go. And let us know how you get on.
Nutrition shindig on the internet
The International Scientific Symposium Biodiversity and Sustainable Diets: United Against Hunger, on until tomorrow at FAO in Rome, is streaming live. Mainly in English. Read a precis of yesterday’s session over at Bioversity.