Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Bhogpur farmer Subash Chander Misra gets Plant Genome Savior Farmer award 2012 for pear conservation. While a whole farming system gets protected in Kerala. Hope it doesn’t go the way of protected areas in Guatemala. Maybe they need old mobile phones. Or a better roads or urban expansion dataset. Or maybe just their own maps. …
The Arnold Arboretum has a nifty new app which lets you access information about individual plants right on your mobile phone as you walk around the grounds. And that of course includes lots of crop wild relatives…
With a mighty leap, the ICARDA genebank has just landed squarely in the 21st century. You can now download an app and search the international collection managed by the centre from your Android phone. iPhone version coming soon. If you test it out, leave your comments here and they will reach the relevant ICARDA geek.
Someone else is interested in breeding oca for outside the Andes. Not to be outdone, the World Agroforestry Centre has a blog. Which somehow missed this story — Study finds mobile phones empower rural farmers — from World Agroforestry Centre. The Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) has a new portal …
Continue reading “Nibbles: Oca, Blog, Phones, UPOV, Finding seeds”
Natalia, who runs a mobile phone service, could plug a gap: We have a database of farmers all across Kenya – we know they location, what they grow and size of the farm. At the moment we have a database of 30.000 farmers, but plan to expand up to 100 k in the next few …