- The essential guide to the 10th Conference of the Parties to the convention on Biological Diversity. Unmissable.
- Popghum? What genius came up with that name? And now that it’s big in Virginia, can Africa and Latin America be far behind?
- Jeremy Bentham excoriates the Russian Federation on Pavlovsk. And gets it mostly right. Yes, that Jeremy Bentham.
- Apparently water diversity is also a good thing for food security.
- Climate change! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Huh!
- “Plumpy’Nut is not a miracle cure for global hunger or for global malnutrition.” Say it isn’t so!
- Never mind wheat, here’s the great buckwheat panic of 2010, kasha chaos.
The not so boring B-301 cowpea
Have a look at the comments to this post of ours from a few days back and then tell me that germplasm documentation doesn’t need a social networking makeover.
Nibbles: Cattle nutrition, Maize, Freshwater biota, Modeling maize, Rice, Book, Veg, Urban ag
- Climate change ain’t going to be good for cattle.
- But will be fabulous for breeders of drought-resistant maize.
- A fifth of Africa’s freshwater plants and animals threatened. How many of these are important to local people’s nutrition and health? A lot, I bet.
- Just a couple guys, modeling the spread of maize genetic diversity in the Americas.
- Uganda turns to wild relatives for new rice varieties.
- Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century recognizes importance of agrobiodiversity. Good to know.
- New Agriculturalist revisits veg-garden-in-a-sack.
- FAO policy brief on urban agriculture.
Daniel Debouck honoured
Daniel Debouck, a world expert on Phaseolus and the manager of CIAT’s genebank, 1 is to be awarded the Frank N. Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources. This is well-deserved recognition of three decades of painstaking work on the conservation and use of agrobiodiversity. Daniel’s latest paper in on Lima beans.
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog almost misses World Coconut Day
I can’t believe it either. Been getting a lot of coverage too.