Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
It turns out we do know what Cary Fowler had to say when he received the Frank N. Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources. It’s not on the relevant website, but it is here below, courtesy of Cary himself. Last spring, I received an email from a graduate student at UC-Davis I had never met …
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What would Erna Bennett do? Go to it, for sure. You do too, if you can. And blog it for us, naturally.
Our friend Danny is continuing his indefatigable search for information about Erna Bennett over at his new blog. He asked for information about “Suiskaya” and lo, another friend replied that this was probably E.N. Sinskaya, (1889-1965). Danny needs more info, if you have anything about her.
Yesterday was Ada Lovelace day, when bloggers around the world celebrated women in technology. We weren’t aware of it, and frankly, I’m not sure who we might have chosen. Erna Bennett? Fortunately, though, we can direct you instead to Oliver Morton’s fine post on Constance Hartt. Who she? Hartt was a laboratory researcher at the …
Alex Chepstow-Lusty, our friend and occasional guest blogger, is celebrating 30 years of working on Andean land-use and African forest histories, and has written the following post to mark the anniversary. It also happens to be 60 years since Jane Goodall began her pioneering studies on chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania, which led directly three …
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