Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
By Jacob van Etten. Do you know the PLEC Serv List? Harold Brookfield and Helen Parsons select a peer-reviewed article on agrobiodiversity management and write a fairly long, but always interesting, summary of it, placing it in its wider context. Even though the agrobiodiversity project after which the list is called ended several years ago, …
Another fine guest post from Jacob van Etten. Places with extreme conditions are good for conservation, whether it be Timbuktu with its dry, hot climate for books or Spitsbergen with its freezing cold for crop seeds. Next year the seeds will start to come to Spitsbergen from across the world to stock the “doomsday seed …
Thanks to our occasional contributor Jacob van Etten for the following article on markets and agrobiodiversity. Monopoly happens when there is only one seller for a certain product. Monopsony, this week’s new word, happens when there is only one buyer. And when this happens, it is also likely that this single buyer will impose some …
The latest Oekologie carnival is up over at 10,000 birds, and I’m here to state that although I submitted the article featured, I did not, as Mike suggests, write it. That was Jacob van Etten, and I hope he’ll submit another guest post soon. The Oekologie carnival has its usual fascinating bunch of links to …
We asked Jacob van Etten to write about war and agricultural biodiversity after seeing his great website. It’s just coincidence that he sent the following piece in right after we blogged about flooding and genetic erosion. Sometimes things work out that way. Thanks, Jacob. We’re always open to guest contributions… War can be disastrous for the …