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Leisa blogs!

E-LEISA is a quarterly newsletter that carries highlights from the global edition of LEISA Magazine and keeps you in touch with the LEISA Network.

And very interesting it is too: we’ve linked to it in the past. Well, LEISA now also has a blog. Been going a couple of months, and they have linked to us, and left us a nice comment, so we’ll repay the compliment.

A post from a few days ago discusses the importance of photographs “in communicating innovations and best practices in agricultural development.” We blogged a couple of days ago about how photos can be used to identify agrobiodiversity. ((Though some people also get it wrong.)) It turns out “DFID’s Research Into Use Programme (RIU) has published a Field Guide to Photography, produced by SCRIPTORIA Communications.” Looks excellent.

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Living Labs videos online

Television for Education-Asia Pacific (TVEAP) has a series of five-minute videos on YouTube highlighting the work of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food in some of the more important river basins of the world:

With water scarcity emerging as a global concern, we simply cannot continue the water-intense methods of the past. Yet, as human numbers increase, more food needs to be produced with the same — or shrinking — land. This calls for smarter, thriftier ways of using freshwater and increasing water’s productivity in agriculture, without damaging the environment, or undermining food security, jobs or health.