Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
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Dagens Nyheter, A Swedish newspaper, ran a big spread on the Pavlovsk Experiment Station on 5 September. We asked our own favourite Swede to do us a precis. Thanks Britta. The article is quite basic — after all the audience is the general Swedish public. It is nevertheless well written and presents several arguments for …
Bioversity International and UNEP jointly pile on the pressure to preserve Pavlovsk … … as do plant professors from University of Wisonsin. Mexican maize farmers using CIMMYT genebank materials to adapt their varieties. Why not in Africa, then? High praise for a novel on opium. Mat Kinase takes Time to task over lacklustre organics article. …
The Associated Press had a big round-up on the threatened Russian genebank at Pavlovsk late last week. We’re linking to the version that appeared at the National Public Radio website because they used lots of photographs, many of which give the lie to statements that the land is not being used. Kudos to AP for …
Fine memoir of Sir Bent Skovmand. Thanks Dag. Rice yields falling — and not just in experimental stations. The paper. In all the eulogies to the inventor of the Cheez Doodle, a note of truth. You could buy the Pavlovsk genebank site for just USD3.3 million, it says here. Is that even doable? Meanwhile, over …
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Priceless or worthless? Absolutely nothing material has changed in the circumstances surrounding the possible destruction of the Pavlovsk Experiment Station, which we first blogged about in April. The hearing date — when courts will decide whether the land should be bulldozed to make way for private houses, destroying the world’s largest genebank of fruits and …