Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Those of us who are interested in the Malawi input subsidies experiment will soon have another data point. Zimbabwe has announced its own fertilizer-plus-seeds subsidy. The inclusion of sorghum in the scheme has been welcomed. Would be nice to think that a range of landraces will be made available, along with modern varieties. But somehow …
From the blurb at Eldis for a document entitled Fertiliser subsidies and sustainable agricultural growth in Africa: current issues and empirical evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Kenya. It is argued that there are compelling rationales for “smart†fertiliser subsidy programmes in Africa. However, achieving these benefits depends greatly on how the programmes are implemented. The …
There was a long piece in the Sunday Standard yesterday on one (in fact, the first) of the so-called Millennium Villages, Sauri in Siaya District, Western Kenya. An initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University launched in 2004, the Millennium Villages project aims “to demonstrate how the eight Millennium Development Goals can be met …