Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
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Our friend and occasional contributor Jacob van Etten has been busy. He has a piece out over at the CCAFS blog describing his work in India on crowdsourcing the evaluation of wheat varieties in the context of climate change adaptation which has been attracting some attention. He’s blogged here before about getting seeds out to …
The talk that Jacob is planning to give later today at the National Geographic store in Madrid (and you can follow online) is now available on Slideshare. Unlocking Agriculture's Past View more presentations from Jacob van Etten LATER: I forgot to use a hashtag, but you can see my live-tweeting of Jacob’s talk by searching …
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That’s the title of a talk our friend and occasional contributor Jacob van Etten will give in the National Geographic store in Madrid next week, on the 28th to be precise. If you can’t be there in person, you can follow Jacob online. And if that doesn’t work, no doubt he’ll tell us here how …
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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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We’re very happy to welcome back to the fray our occasional contributor Jacob van Etten. Don’t be such a stranger in the future, Jacob. My daughter’s Danonino yoghurt, bought at our local Spanish supermarket, came with a tiny package of lettuce seeds and a nice plastic box to plant the seeds into. In my particular …
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