CODESU is the Consortium for Sustainable Development in Ucayali – an Amazonian department of Peru, with Pucallpa as its administrative centre. The consortium partners really recognize the importance of agricultural biodiversity in their development efforts – perhaps an unusual situation. The latest evidence of this committment is the germplasm catalog that has just gone online. It has information on cassava, peppers, beans and maize. There are other interesting resources on the website, including publications, though mainly in Spanish. You can read more about the efforts of CODESU in the management of crop diversity in traditional agroecosystems, and place them in a wider context, in a recent Bioversity International publication of that title.
Wikiseedia starting to sprout?
Wikiseedia may be starting to sprout. Although the front page had not been changed since 29 May.
New course
Teaching researchers to talk to farmers in East Africa.
Armenian apricots
The Ministry of Agriculture in Yeravan is organizing an international conference on the Armenian apricot.
African biotech
SciDevNet’s roundup of agri-biotech in Africa is online.