- 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.
Climate change, agriculture and web 2.0
A new website to do with agriculture and climate change for you to explore: Climate-Smart Agriculture from FAO. Basically just a static selection of case studies, but interesting for all that, and maybe it will evolve into something a little more interactive. The Challenge Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has a blog if you’re into the whole web 2.0 experience thing.