Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Crops for the Future picks up on quinoa. No comments allowed there, plenty here. Envy? Symposium on Domestication as an evolutionary phenomenon: expanding the synthesis. Usual envy. If you were a god, emperor or one of ancient Rome’s nouveau riche, you’d be drinking Falernian—or maybe a fake. Unusual envy. Ants and termites are the earthworms …
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Leonid Burmistrov, Leading Scientist of the Fruit and Berry Crop Genetic Resources Department of the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (VIR) in St Petersburg, has died. From the recent announcement on the VIR website: Leonid Burmistrov has made a significant contribution to the preservation of the threatened fruit and berry crop collections located at …
Women and livestock. Women are not the solution. Hang on, sorry. Women are the solution. Traditional crops help improve agricultural sustainability, says scientist. Biofortification “is exactly what we need to … improve global health,” says Deputy Coordinator for Development at Feed the Future. Grist’s “good news for trees” roundup of 2010. Russie : menace sur …
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Legal niceties may help save Pavlovsk Experiment Station … … which says its cherries are doing just fine, thank you. Jeremy hard at work. Ecosystem Services and Food Security. One for later. Kew’s Garden Photographer competition closes soon. Surprise everyone, submit something edible. Satoyama Initiative explained. On top of everything else, climate change may lead …
More on the one-two fungus-virus bee-killer combo. “In the end, all the brave talk about food self-sufficiency in Asia is just nonsense; ain’t never gonna happen.” Very strategic analysis. The Resilient Gardener, by Carol Deppe. Can’t wait to get hold of this, from one of the best ever. “African governments urged to increase uptake of …
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