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Nibbles: Seeds, Organics, Absinthe, Potato, Cattle genome, Tree diseases, Rice, ABS, Avian flu
- Software will ease seed availability. No, really.
- Enforcement of organic regulations sometimes flawed. No really.
- Absinthism a myth. No, really.
- Potato film hits big time. No, really.
- “Influential” bulls sequenced. No, really.
- Tree diseases distribution will change under climate change. No, really?
- Boffins in drive to double rice production in Africa. No, really.
- Boffins and lawyers meet to sort out biodiversity access and benefit sharing thing. No, really. And, incidentally, what could possibly go wrong?
- H5N1 committee wonders whether they have sampled enough. No, really.
Twittering rice
The Africa Rice Centre is tweeting (twittering?) away at the African Rice Congress in Bamako, Mali. Oh, there’s a website too, and a blog with an RSS feed, but that seems so terribly 20th century somehow.
Paper on climate change and species distributions attains classic status
Conservation.Bytes features a landmark 2004 paper on the projected effect of climate change on species distributions as its latest Conservation Classic. It also points to a 2008 summary of such studies over at BraveNewClimate. Regular readers will know that there have been studies which have focused specifically on the wild genepools of different crops.
Photos wanted
Got photos of Africa? I know we do. But that’s not the point. The point is that the Worldwatch Institute wants your pictures to illustrate its forthcoming report State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet. All details here.