I think we may have blogged before about a series of educational videos on the management of the rice crop aimed at your actual rice farmer. But there’s no harm in mentioning them again, especially since it gives me the opportunity of linking to the very useful resource centre of the Global Farmer Field School Network, which brings them all together and packages them with additional information. The site is serchable, and a quick look revealed quite a few interesting things on agrobiodiversity. Again, thanks to the indefatigable Danny for the link.
African Crop Science Meeting
The 8th African Crop Science Society meeting will take place in Egypt from 27 to 31 October. Could be some interesting papers, if anyone survives scrutiny of the conference web page). We keep saying this, and we keep meaning it: if any reader is at the meeting and wants to send a report, we’ll be happy to receive it.
BGCI Video Project
Botanic Gardens Conservation International wants YOU to make a film! I hope some of them at least will be about the agricultural biodiversity that botanic gardens conserve and study — crop wild relatives, for example. But hey, don’t forget we have a video competition here too!
Rice, China and climate change
Remember Jeremy has an omnibus post about Chinese agrobiodiversity.
Agrobiodiversity 101
This article introduces an ongoing series that will examine the many lesser-known plants and animals that could benefit humanity … if we work to preserve them.
So far, so uncontroversial. The way people play with the “X food supply from Y species” thing intrigues me, as does the “Z edible species” assertion. These numbers have the ring of the catechism about them. But as a summary to the issues, this series may prove worthwhile.