I can’t believe it either. Been getting a lot of coverage too.
Talking about an African Green Revolution
The African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) focuses on promoting investments and policy support for driving agricultural productivity and income growth for African farmers in an environmentally sustainable way. The Forum, which stems from the African Green Revolution Conference in Oslo, is a private-sector led initiative which will bring together African heads of state, ministers, farmers, private agribusiness firms, financial institutions, NGOs, civil society and scientists, to discuss and develop concrete investment plans for achieving the green revolution in Africa.
It’s going on right now, and it’s getting the full social networking treatment. If you want to share corridor gossip, you know where to find us.
LATER: By the way, AGRA, one of the organizers, has also just started a blog.
More Pavlovsk on the web
There’s a very good report from Pavlovsk on Al Jazeera’s youtube channel.
My only objection is to the reference to Pavlovsk as “one of only two botanical repositories on the planet.” And since we’re being all multimedia and social networky, I’ll also mention the photos on the Global Crop Diversity Trust’s Facebook page, which could do with — and are in fact receiving — some user-provided value-added.
Nibbles: Sustainability, Market gardens, Tomato history, Millennium Seed Bank
- What’s behind “the environmentalist’s paradox“?
- Growing vegetables in the Sahel. What could possibly go wrong?
- And for the EurekAlert trifecta: the history of the pomodoro in Italy.
- Kew Magazine looks at seeds, big time.
Carnival marks end of summer
And a big welcome to all of you who have ended up here from the 31st Berry-Go-Round. Have fun! Everybody else, off you go to Seeds Aside.