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May 27, 2007May 27, 2007

Another deadly disease

Tomato leaf curl virus has appeared in California, threatening the entire US tomato crop.

May 27, 2007May 27, 2007

Farmers Celebrate Biodiversity Day

Farmers Celebrate Biodiversity Day in Ireland …

May 27, 2007May 27, 2007

CABI e-Zine

CABI has a new e-Zine. And in the first issue, how farmers in Sri Lanka are using the internets to grow better crops.

1. FAO explains why crop diversity matters.
2. Well, for one thing, there’s food prices, that’s why.
3. Ah, yes, crop diversity: “You gotta have it. You gotta use it. You gotta talk about it.”
4. Odisha mainstreams landrace diversity in its seed system.
5. Meanwhile, the Farmers Union of Cyprus is stashing seeds away in Community Bank of Cypriot Traditional Seeds.
6. Looks a bit like the Groupements de Production Artisanale de Semences in Haiti. If you squint.
7. If only there were some guidelines for managing such community seed banks.
8. Iraqi Kurdistan gets in on the genebank act.
9. Iraq used to have a genebank, but what happened to it has just happened in Sudan.
10. Ah, to have a Climate—Conflict—Vulnerability Index so that such things could be predicted and steps taken.
11. And a monitoring system and some targets would be good too.
Published on August 12, 2025