Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
The Golden Rice thing rumbles endlessly on. I wonder whether it was discussed at the First International Agronomy Day. I bet that fertilizer thing in Malawi was. The world’s most expensive cock. Made you look! I wonder whether you can select sex in chickens like you can in cattle. Anyway, speaking of expensive agrobiodiversity, a …
Oxford Review of Economic Policy has special volume on biodiversity economics. Not much ag, though, settle down. ICARDA announces on Twitter the existence of a new Facebook page which looks a bit like the old one. It’s the fertilizer miles, stupid. Great British Food Revival does heirloom carrots. Oh and beer. Good news for a …
Jacob van Etten has sent in this post, with the following disclaimer: I contributed one of the articles to the issue and participated in a preparatory workshop. My own addition to this issue highlights the role of ICT technologies to create new networks of collaboration around technological innovation, creating new links between scientists and farmers. …
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Here’s a turn-up for the books. A newspaper article headlined New farming practices grow healthier children actually delivers some specifics. The article reports on a project called Soils, Food and Healthy Communities, a joint effort by Canada and Malawi, and I’m ashamed to say (or can I blame the project’s communications?) that I knew nothing …
It has been almost 10 days since the publication of Increased Food and Ecosystem Security via Perennial Grains in the Policy Forum of the journal Science. ((Glover, J., Reganold, J., Bell, L., Borevitz, J., Brummer, E., Buckler, E., Cox, C., Cox, T., Crews, T., Culman, S., DeHaan, L., Eriksson, D., Gill, B., Holland, J., Hu, …