Livestock

Nibbles: Carnival, farmer schools, zero-till, drought, barley, ag college, organic choc, ICTs

Tangled Bank 101.
From ELDIS 1: Farmers in Malawi learn best from one another.
From ELDIS 2: Improving crop-livestock systems in Ethiopia.
Nature and Science on the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD).
Barley makes a come-back? No, it’s not beer-related, Jeremy.
A call for respect for Nagpur’s agricultural college in its centenary year. Seconded.
Internets buzzing this morning. Check out a NatGeo video on how organic cacao is saving the rainforest in the Dominican Republic.
CTA wants one laptop per farmer. Not just to “make better PowerPoints,” though.

India to research bees in detail.
Yak knob to go with your yak milk, sir?
George Lucas does his bit to conserve a weird cattle breed, the Japanese wagyu. Well, kinda.
Was the typical English village founded around 900 AD as a result of monastically-driven agricultural innovation?
Diverse healthy reasons to drink beer; Luigi unavailable for comment.

AGRA’s first eight PhD students get to work.
Papa Andina Regional Initiative assessed by CGIAR CAPrI. Can’t be bothered reading the whole thing? Try this.
Factsheets for farmers in Kenya and Uganda; Luigi’s MIL not available for comment.
Tequila for lunch: Jeremy comments: “Wish I could be at this seminar, at the University of California, Davis”.
Dogon agriculture 101.
Got yak milk?