Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Conserving dambos for livelihoods in southern Africa. How many CWRs are found in such wetland habitats around the world, I wonder. Cucumis not out of Africa. Exploring “the connection between traditional knowledge of herbs, edible and medicinal plants and media networked culture.” And why not. PBS video on malnutrition. Fungal exhibition at RBG Edinburgh. Indian …
Going nuts in Kyrgyzstan. Ok, sorry, that should read growing. And something similar from Brazil. And the bad Ug99 news just keeps on coming. When is wheat gonna catch a break? The Campesino a Campesino Pollinator Project. I just love that title. Study says “drought tolerant maize will greatly benefit African farmers.” Still no cure …
Continue reading “Nibbles: Nuts, Ug99, Mexican pollinator project, Maize in Africa, Cerrado fruit”
We had a nice response to a recent post about UG99 from someone called Paul. With reference to UG99 wheat mould – would anyone consider using far-out & whacky ideas to overcome this problem or are our scientists and universities more interested in getting funding for research from the large companies that make chemical sprays …
It was Lord Beaverbrook, I think, who said that if something had not been reported in his once-mighty Daily Express, then it hadn’t happened. ((No, I’m not going to check.)) For netizens of the modern age, much the same could be said of MetaFilter; if it isn’t there, it’s nowhere. And so it came to …
And today’s 500 genomes are … h/t OpenHelix. FAO uses sorghum to deliver food security in Matabeleland North. Meanwhile … science alert: sorghum’s family tree delineated, scope for breeding from wild relatives. Small family farms can provide lots of food and preserve tropical forest biodiversity, say researchers. Actual paper not yet available. Wired magazine does …