Policy

Nibbles: CG diversity pix smackdown, ARTs in Bolivia, Fruits in Central Asia, Terra-i, FAO land use data, Agroforestry, Nagoya, Microwaves, Taxonomist Day, Spring!, Right to Food, Pacific food

Some fabulous photos of maize diversity from CIMMYT. (IRRI says, I see your diverse maize, and raise you diverse rice.)
Hope neither goes the way of that of some Andean roots and tubers in Bolivia. Or fruits in Central Asia. Though neither is doing terribly, in truth.
And too bad you can’t monitor that the way you can forests. Or land use in general for that matter.
World Agroforestry Centre calls for more, er, agroforestry. Will Defra listen?
Maybe it’s too busy consulting on the Nagoya Protocol. Wonder how good that will be for agroforestry.
I don’t care what anyone says, I like microwaves.
Wait, we missed Hug a Taxonomist Day?
And Persian New Year?
De Schutter’s final report. Main message not lost on the Pacific island countries.

People are ready with their reactions to the Great EU Seed Law Thing.
Bananas seem ready once again for their decadal extinction story.
Those nice people saving crop wild relatives are ready with a new Twitter account to follow.
The wheat diversity of Nepal will soon be ready for science.
And The Boston Globe is ready with its own story about seed libraries.

CIAT examines the climate change options for coffee and mongo in Haiti.
Edward Carr reckons that from an aid donor’s perspective, adapting agriculture to climate change isn’t such a great idea.
Neither has anything to say about this how-to guide to mushroom farming in Kenya.

If you were thinking of registering for Resilience 2014 in Montpellier, you better get your skates on. It closes on 10 March.
UK pays farmers to conserve biodiversity – but not crop biodiversity.
Eau de goat is “citrus-scented” shock.
A web-based resource to understand the 30,000 genes that make grapes.