Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
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Luigi pointed out that my latching onto that animation of the heat wave sweeping across America “only tells you that it’s hot. Not that it’s any hotter than in ought to be”. And, as so often, he’s right. He was good enough to link to items that demonstrated that both May and June were indeed hotter than they ought to be. In the interests of making things as easy as possible, I’m going to share a picture of not the temperature but the temperature anomaly. And boy, has it been hotter than it ought to have been.
8 degrees F is almost 4.5 degrees C.
I dunno. You got your FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, which is right now winding up here in Rome for the 13th time (CGRFA 13). Then of course you got your International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, which met a few months ago in Bali for the fourth time. Then you got your WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC), whose 19th session is meeting in Geneva about now too. Then you got your Convention on Biological Diversity with its Nagoya Protocol and whatnot. Maybe others too. I just hope somebody out there is in charge of keeping all this stuff straight. Don’t you?
We’ve been playing around with Scoop.it. What do you think?
Dept of 1 picture = 1000 words
Via Michael J. Roberts, who got it from David Lobell.