Livestock

How to conserve animal genetic resources

And speaking of eloquent images, here’s another one, this time from the world of animal genetic resources conservation.

Ooops, no, that’s not the one I meant. It was this one:

Which comes from the draft FAO Guidelines for the In Vivo Conservation of Animal Genetic Resources. Lots more details there. Via CGN.

July issue of CSA News, official magazine for members of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and Soil Science Society of America, has article on “Crop Adaptation to Climate Change” based on official CSSA position statement, “Crop Adaptation to Climate Change.”
Factsheet on bacterial diversity and why it’s good for soils.
FAO guidelines for the In Vivo Conservation of Animal Genetic Resources discussed in Europe.
Please eat the daisies. Or other flowers.
Farming chips.
Never thought I’d get bored of reading about ancient beer.

Guess what. Cranberry pests prefer certain varieties.
If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. Estimating yield of food crops grown by smallholder farmers from IFPRI.
CIAT first CG centre to publish peer-reviewed video, on resistance selection. In other news, there are peer-reviewed videos?
CFTF draws our attention to Jackfruit – Forgotten Kalpavriksha, “a common trope”.
$3.4 million worth of good news for food security and diversity in the Andes. “Small Andean tuber crops” involved.
Minor millets star in new film shared by Bioversity.
Want the Philippines to be self-sufficient in rice? Eat rootcrops. IRRI unavailable for comment.
Way more than any sensible person will ever want to know about duck and goose semen.

Seed savers: everyone’s got an angle, from Seeds of Hope and Change to Seed Bank Bingo.
Italian lemons enjoying a renaissance. In California, natch.
India registers Assam farmers’ traditional rice varieties. In other news, rice water “is also used as shampoo, according to community elders”.
US$9 million to “implement and evaluate four approaches” to controlling Striga in Africa. One day we’ll know.
Denver Botanic Gardens does amaranth.
Evolution of bearded pigs. Good to know. Good to eat?
Bioversity banana team guest blogs at Annals of Botany. But surely they have a blog of their own. No, wait…
Agriculture is bad for your health.