Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Got to go out to dinner, so not much time to blog, but I thought I’d tease you with some of the more interesting questions that were posed by speakers during this second day of the Amman conference on food security in the drylands under climate change. I’ll post (some of) the answers later. Calvin …
Crop Genebank’s Knowledge Base enjoys an outing in Amman. Great Headlines of our Time: Researchers fight world hunger by mapping the soybean genome. Blight-resistant potatoes from Hungary to the UK. Danish Seed Savers 2010 list available. “We want to make sorghum to be even better than maize,” says Kenyan gene jockey. Why? “The dog is …
The afternoon plenary (see here for the morning) consisted of talks by Drs Adel El Beltagy (GFAR) and Mark Rosegrant (IFPRI). Again, here’s what struck me particularly out of the many interesting things they said. Svalbard Global Seed Vault provides a Noah’s Ark for the world’s crop germplasm collections, which we’ll need for both adaptation …
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The international conference on Food Security and Climate Change in Dry Areas got off to a stirring start with a long, passionate and scientifically very literate speech from the guest of honour, HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal. That was followed by keynotes from Drs Mahendra Shah and Mahmoud Solh, who have a huge amount …
Has a more joyous culinary celebration of agrobiodiversity ever been devised than the Levantine مَزة (meze)? Answers on a postcard, please.