Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Beer with shrooms. Well, not quite, but one can hope. No more corn detasseling? Say it ain’t so. “Oman to Plant 100,000 Coconut Trees in Dhofar.” That’s in the south of the country, a fascinating area. And one asks, as ever: What varieties, and what’s going to happen to the local material? Be like the …
A recent press release from WWF notes that Russia is gazetting “9 new nature reserves and 13 national parks covering a total area of over 3.8 million ha by 2020”. That’s an area almost the size of Switzerland and almost 3 per cent of Russia’s total area. Bravo. But they won’t protect 10 hectares of …
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Berry Go Round 29 is upon us, a little delayed because of some unforeseen travel on my part. And getting right down to it, let’s honour the mindless fools who honestly think that a blog carnival dedicated to plants and botany is going to feature their absurd lists of great mortgages or places to become …
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Russian Ministry of Economic Development adopts resolutions destroying the European largest field genebank and replacing it with commercial cottages. That’s quite a title. It refers to the Vavilov Institute’s Pavlovsk Experiment Station. The Station was organised in 1926 near St. Petersburg. Being one of the major stations of VIR, it studies perennial grasses and cruciferous …