Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
RICA: A rice crop calendar for Asia based on MODIS multi year data. RiceAtlas validated. Still trying to figure out how to mash it up with genebank accession locality data though. Any GIS geniuses out there to help me? AEGIS, the Virtual European Genebank: Why It Is Such a Good Idea, Why It Is Not …
Collecting and regenerating populations of the Allium ampeloprasum complex from Greece. There’s some good news, and some bad news. Genomic prediction models trained with historical records enable populating the German ex situ genebank bio-digital resource center of barley (Hordeum sp.) with information on resistances to soilborne barley mosaic viruses. Good news if you want to …
Colin is pissed: Or, to put it more succinctly, stop complaining and propose something better! Something better than “In the past century, the number of crops and their varieties, and the genetic diversity within them, has declined as a general trend in farmers’ fields around the world.” to be precise. Which is in turn supposed …
From the CIAT blog: Putting true numbers on diversity loss turns out to be a complicated and contested business, with no shortage of strong opinions. One big part of the problem is that there aren’t many good ways to count the diversity that existed before it disappeared. Researchers have done some work to assess the …
With sincere apologies for the lack of service. It’s just been that kind of week. For both of us. “[H]ow a powerful and intransigent agriculture lobby has successfully fought off attempts to reduce the harmful environmental and health impacts of mass livestock production.” Say it isn’t so. “[A] planet that has lost 75% of its …