Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Grahame Jackson is a plant pathologist and root crops expert who’s been working in the South Pacific for I guess going on for 30 years now. ((Full disclosure: He’s also a good friend of mine.)) Yet he’s not afraid of admitting he can still learn something by doing intensive fieldwork, as you can read over …
Nevis has 44 kinds of mango, including Amory Polly, which could actually be Amrapali आम्रपाली. A twitter thread on “hogs, ferality, and race in American history.” If that doesn’t make you click nothing will. “Can sweet potatoes reduce widespread vitamin A deficiency in Africa?” Guess. The end of kava as we know it? Making linen. …
Good to see the March edition of Hortinews magazine focusing on the sweetpotato in Africa. ((Thanks to CIP for pointing to it.)) I found it a little difficult to navigate the feature online, although you can also just download the whole issue as a pdf, so let me link directly to two stories on orange-fleshed …
I find the whole debate about Golden Rice pretty boring. Not because I don’t think the subject — GR in and of itself, and as a symbol of something bigger — is important. Rather, because I think it’s very important to have a debate, but the way this is being conducted at the moment is …
Continuing our in-depth treatment of The Economist’s (unwitting?) coverage of agricultural biodiversity, two items in the most recent issue. First, consider this photo: It’s from an article on the BBC World Service, and clearly shows the value of a radio in Africa. But what’s that the listener is holding? Could it be a cavy? I …
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