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Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Thanks to Helmut Knüpffer of IPK Gatersleben, for his comment pointing to two important papers relating to Erna Bennett. Erna Bennett: Her Career and Convictions and An Interview with Erna Bennett by IS Cunningham provides an insight into some aspects of her personality and drive. (Diversity 5(2 & 3), 60-63, 1989. As with the Ceres …
Erna Bennett was unique. Well, not quite. There have been other Erna Bennetts, one of whom died almost exactly a year ago. Although I never met “our” Erna Bennett, I like to think that she would actually be tickled to have been confused with Erna Bennett of Richmond, VA in the United States. I say …
Erna Bennett has died. She was a pioneer of plant genetic resources conservation. In fact, according to Pat Mooney, “it was this colourful, outspoken Ulster-born Irish revolutionary who first coined the phrase ‘genetic conservation’ and brought substance and strategy to the term for the world community”. You can get some idea of what she meant …
Our friend Danny has a new blog at agrobiodiversitie, the final two letters of which are a reference to his native Ireland. He’s trying to find out more about Erna Bennett, one of the great pioneers of genetic conservation. Indeed, she coined that phrase, which I didn’t know. Anyway, take a look at Danny’s site …
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