Bad news for Dutch agrobiodiversity. Castaneda unavailable for comment.
More on submersible rice
Rice survives immersion: Man from Atlantis unavailable for comment.
Reconnecting the food chain
“Alternative food networks” are good for you.Â
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.
Scots forget agricultural biodiversity
Scotland has published figures on trends in a set of biodiversity indicators developed by the Scottish Biodiversity Forum. The indicator of “vascular plant diversity” does include consideration of agricultural landscapes: “although not statistically significant, the survey pointed to possible declines among already low numbers of wild plants present” on arable and horticultural land. Otters are doing better, however, which is good. But what about native livestock breeds, crop wild relatives, landraces? There doesn’t seem to be anything about agrobiodiversity in these indicators. Of course. Pity.