Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
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 …
Analysis of genetic diversity in farmers’ rice varieties in Sierra Leone using morphological and AFLP markers. Still a lot of diversity in traditional rice after the war, both among and within landraces, mostly among, organized regionally, and recognized by local names. Simultaneous selection for resistance to five bacterial, fungal, and viral diseases in three Andean …
Drought threatens rare rice varieties. What d’you mean they’re not in genebanks? Has video dimmed the radio’s star? Wanna get a PhD in “climate services for development“? Course you do. Apple harvest fails. Turns out you need a diversity of agricultural labourers too. Medlars. I love it when people treat my familiar stuff as highly …
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Relating dietary diversity and food variety scores to vegetable production and socio-economic status of women in rural Tanzania. Dietary diversity was all too often alarmingly low, and when it was it was associated with seasonal fluctuations in the production and collecting of vegetables. But a more varied diet need not necessarily be healthier, so more …