The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) has just kicked off a Kenya Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Research Programme (KASAL) with funding from the European Union. Assistant Minister for Science and Technology, Mr Hassan Sasura, said at the launch that “the fragile pastoralist economies required product diversification and value addition to root out poverty and marginalisation.” That seems to give at least some hope that the programme will pay due attention to the importance of agricultural biodiversity. Let’s hope so.
Chilean salmon farming
WWF recommends how salmon farming and beautiful Chilean lakes can co-exist.
Croatian agricultural biodiversity
Conference on Croatian breeds and varieties, in Croatian though.
Un-spinning “natural” skimmed milk
Muck and Mystery unspins “natural” skimmed milk.
Rabbits breeding like … rabbits
Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits reintroduced into their native habitat in the state of Washington are finally breeding, raising hopes that this endangered species will recover. Ok, so as wild relatives of a domesticated species go, this one is a fairly remote one, but who knew that “the domestic Oryctolagus cuniculus is believed to have originated in French monasteries in the late first millennium?”