Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Innovations for sustainable food systems: genebanks are in there but frankly I find the whole thing a bit problematic. Just gonna leave that there. Feel free to comment here. Colin Khoury’s backstory. Also some CWR. The fight against pathogens. Of plants, settle down. Better Napier grass is good for everyone. Including the cows. But wait, …
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There’s an open access Crop Science Special Issue out under the title: Connecting Agriculture, Public Gardens and Science. Well worth having a look at. There’s great stuff on crop wild relatives, plant awareness, chefs, and trans-situ conservation, just to give you a flavour. There’s also a summary of the symposium that gave rise to the …
5 years ago when we published global dietary change and increasing homogeneity (https://t.co/qbeGBGnple) and we were asked 'where do we go from here?' we had few answers. Finally some recommendations- https://t.co/u7JJnfW3j6 https://t.co/TfJ9NeTvXZ pic.twitter.com/JCbm5UQuU6 — Colin Khoury (@ColinKhoury) October 8, 2019 Spoiler alert: there’s more to it than information and awareness-raising.
A paper just out in Quaternary Science Reviews provides an overview of the first 3000 years of the spread of cultivated cereals around Eurasia, based on archaeobotanical evidence. The paper has some nice maps, but the press release has a really cool animated gif, which I had no hesitation in stealing. via GIPHY Here’s a …
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This is a guest post by Vanesa Martin, Anastasia Kunz, Nicole Pepper and Eli Simonson of the NASA DEVELOP Colorado office. Many thanks to all of them. And thanks also to Colin Khoury for helping to make it happen. NASA DEVELOP, as a part of NASA’s Applied Sciences Program, addresses environmental issues through interdisciplinary research …
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