Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Coincidentally, I also heard about another lot of agrobiodiversity photos today. Ellen Geerlings posted an announcement on ELDev about the publication of her book “People and livestock.”
The book contains photos taken over a period of 16 years. It includes 76 pages of photos of livestock keeping in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cameroon, Egypt, Mexico, India and Wales and more.
You can see the first 15 pages on the publisher’s website. And National Geographic has more photos. Well worth a look.
The UK’s International Garden Photographer of the Year award have just been announced. The New Scientist has a nice selection. The competition’s website has all the category winners and finalists. There are some really great photos, including of crop plants. But I was disappointed that few of the photographs celebrated diversity per se, but rather took a somewhat reductionist, or perhaps minimalist, view. Having said that, there were exceptions.
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Day 1 (18 May) was all about sustainability.