Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
You may remember I blogged from a conference in Amman over a year ago. It was about how climate change would affect food security in the dry areas. Well, the conference proceedings has been out for a while, courtesy of ICARDA, but I only just found out about it. Lots of interesting stuff in there. …
The livestock genetic resources conservation people are going to be hard at it both in Europe and India this year. Must be something in the air.
Farmer? Know your rights. If you like long unexpurgated interviews, you like this one with organic breeder John Navazio. h/t Bishop. Cropgenebankknowledgebase’s blog seeks feedback. Let ’em have it. What is Crop Genebank Knowledge Base? A presentation reveals all. ICRISAT set to release three new hybrid pigeon pea varieties. “Cheese has an almost limitless variety. …
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Department of Very Cool: Luigi’s presentation on The role of ex situ crop diversity conservation in adaptation to climate change was featured on the home page of SlideShare today. The role of ex situ crop diversity conservation in adaptation to climate change View more presentations from Luigi Guarino. Course, it might be gone by tomorrow, …
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Population Action has an interactive map which mashes up climate change (including its effect on total national agricultural production) with population dynamics. Here, for example, is the result for Africa. ((Sorry about the quality, I can’t see an easy way of downloading a decent image, but the thing looks well enough on the website itself.)) …
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