Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
There was a long piece in the Sunday Standard yesterday on one (in fact, the first) of the so-called Millennium Villages, Sauri in Siaya District, Western Kenya. An initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University launched in 2004, the Millennium Villages project aims “to demonstrate how the eight Millennium Development Goals can be met …
I’ve blogged a few times before about the Millennium Villages. An initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University launched in 2004, the Millennium Villages project aims “to demonstrate how the eight Millennium Development Goals can be met in rural Africa within five years through community-led development.” ((“The Millennium Village effort is explicitly linked to …
Continue reading “Green Millennium Revolution Villages debated”
Coconut origins, the quick version. Chile gets a bugbank. Stay-green barley genes located. In a genebank collection, natch. What now, a Stay-green Revolution? New Economist blog agnostic about Millennium Villages. Plant scientists call for $100 billion investment in, er, plant science. Wheat pedigrees online. IITA a youthful 45. Cats in Islam. Noscapine production in poppies …
Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that one crop variety does disappear every single day. The question still remains: does it matter? After all, the variety that was just lost yesterday might be very similar to one that’s still out there today. That’s part of the reason why a group of French researchers …
Continue reading “The how and why of indicators of agricultural biodiversity”
Push-pull pulls in prize. Which is more than can be said for the Millennium Villages Project. I wish someone would occupy them. You can have too much good breeding. If you’re a horse. Nice aerial pics of rice cultivation. And a sort of information service on that cereal called Rice 2.0, which unaccountably lacks an …