Pollinators – Page 59 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

September 6, 2008

Bosnian bee-fest

Spent the whole week in Sarajevo for a meeting, but did get a chance to explore on Friday morning. Doing so, I stumbled on the Sarajevo Bee-Fest: lots of stalls with people selling all kinds of different local honeys, other bee products, and bee-keeping equipment. No sign of worry about colony collapse disorder.

September 3, 2008September 3, 2008

Nibbles: Seed hunter, Milk, Wine, Pollinators, Cacao, Berries

Seed hunter hunts cash. Australians can watch on 21 October.
Is selling milk retail really diversification? Alex thinks so.
In vino variety. Jeremy sez: “Theft (of headline) is flattery”.
Pollinator presence plummets. Luigi alsoÂ sez: “Theft (of headline) is flattery”.
Cacao Germplasm Evaluation and Characterization Project. Nuff said.
Ribes redux.

August 29, 2008August 29, 2008

Nibbles: Amazon, Aquaculture, Bees, ICTs, Food prices, Dates, Cats, Taro

Not so pristine after all.
Farming the sturgeon.
Colony Collapse Disorder 101. And how floral scents affect pollinator behaviour.
Presentation on how mobile phones are changing rural livelihoods.
Urban food gardens to combat high food prices in South Africa. And a different approach in Madagascar.
Getting dates in Saudi Arabia is becoming difficult.
“Winged” cats.
The importance of taro in Hawaii. Thanks, Tevita.

August 12, 2008August 13, 2008

Nibbles for the road: Baobab, Breeding, Gardening, Earthworms, Taro, Pollinators, Llama, Trees, Chili peppers

More on how the baobab is coming to Europe.
Review of breeding for nutritionally improved crops.
Book on the origins of British gardening.
Earthworms “modulate the competition between grasses and legumes.”
ACIAR publishes book on taro pests in the Pacific.
UNEP launches global pollinator conservation initiative.
Unusual use for livestock fetuses.
“And she grows more than 100 types of trees…“
“Along the equator, without access to refrigeration, you could be dead pretty quickly unless you can find a way to protect yourself against the microbes you ingest every day.”

August 5, 2008August 5, 2008

Nibbles: Economics, Agricultural origins, Slow Food, Pollinators, India

An economist designs a sustainable agricultural system. Good news: it includes genebanks, if only as an additional thought.
Peruvian rock art marks transition between hunting/gathering and agriculture.
A food garden on the White House lawn? Via Slow Food Nation, get your tickets quick. And follow the blog. Thanks, Colinski, and have a good time there.
“The total economic value of pollination worldwide amounted to â‚¬153 billion, which represented 9.5% of the value of the world agricultural production used for human food in 2005.”
“I want the farmers to get the message that what we are doing, what they will be doing when they embrace natural farming, is revolutionary.”