Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
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The programme for the ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings in November is up. The genetic resources sessions look very solid, as ever. And the prestigious Calvin Sperling Memorial Lecture is to be given by our friend, colleague and occasional contributor Robert Hijmans on a topic we’ve blogged about often here, climate change and agrobiodiversity.
The more eagle-eyed among you may have noticed, looking at the byline of the previous post, that we have a new regular contributor. He’s Robert Hijmans, and he has in fact written for us before, most memorably his tour-de-force liveblogging from the recent Harlan II Symposium. Welcome to the team, Robert.
Having tried my hand at the conference-reporting lark, I have enormous respect for people like Robert Hijmans, who did us proud with his series on Harlan II, and, now, Elanor over at The Ethicurean. She (?) has been at a conference on the Politics of Food held at North Carolina State University. From what looks …
Robert Hijmans puts his money where his mouth is. I took the train to Berkeley, less than two hours from Davis towards San Francisco. I checked in at the French hotel and dined in the restaurant across the street. We are talking about Alice Waters’ place, Chez Panisse a restaurant well known to the readers …
From a very tired and emotional Robert Hijmans. Previously…. No domestication without relaxation. Today was excursion day at the Harlan II symposium. All to the Napa wineries you’d think, but no, there were not enough registrants for that. ((Editor’s note: Excuse me?)) But there was a tour of the Charles Rick Tomato Genebank and a …