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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. 1 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.