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Discovering the value of the Greek national genebank

Attentive readers may remember a post several months back announcing a project that is attempting the unenviable task of assigning a dollar (or euro, or maybe even drachma) value to the Greek national genebank, and presumably making some recommendations for funding. Well, the project is off and running and now has a website. One for the feed reader.

LATER: Of course, to get at that valuation, it will be necessary to figure out how much of the material in the Greek genebank is unique. Well, Aegis now has an app for that!

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Featured GCP RSS battle

Antonia continues a metaphor, and asks for opinions on GCP’s RSS feeds.

It’s a new website, so still lots of construction debris flying and lying about, and gaping holes here and there, but we’re working on it as we go along… Will be interesting to hear the views of others on RSS.

Let her have it here.

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Mapping cropland one more time

More cartographic busy-ness from IFPRI. They’re mapping cropland, and need your help to validate the results. That’s because the available maps sometimes disagree. And I’m not even entirely sure they’ve looked at all the maps that are out there. What about IWMI‘s stuff? Or FAO‘s? Or even ESRI’s pretty, but pretty useless, recent offering? I expect most of these use the same raw data anyway. So it’s probably a good idea to try to sort it all out with a bit of crowd-sourced ground-truthing. But I do wonder whether those citizen scientists are looking at extra things, beyond just verifying whether they’re standing in cropland or forest. Like gender, for example. Other bits of IFPRI would probably find that interesting, and would even be able to tell them how to do it.