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September 7, 2010September 7, 2010

Nibbles: Nagoya, Popghum, Pavlovsk, Water, Climate change, Plumpy’Nut, Buckwheat

The essential guide to the 10th Conference of the Parties to the convention on Biological Diversity. Unmissable. Popghum? What genius came up with that name? And now that it’s big in Virginia, can Africa and Latin America be far behind? Jeremy Bentham excoriates the Russian Federation on Pavlovsk. And gets it mostly right. Yes, that …

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September 3, 2010September 3, 2010

Anarchist demo at Pavlovsk

August 31 Pavlovskaia experimental station, the commission came from the Chamber to the closed doors to determine whether it is a unique collection of plants Vavilov retained, or to land occupied by the collection, sold by luxury villas. In response, the anarchists staged an unauthorized picket. A demonstration? By anarchists? In the Russian Federation? Seems …

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September 2, 2010

Medvedev buys Pavlovsk some time?

On 31st of August 2010 Pavlovsk Experiment Station of VIR had an unscheduled inspection. The station was visited by representatives of the Public Chamber, the Accounts Chamber as well as representatives of the Russian Housing Development Foundation. This inspection was a result of instruction given by Dmitry Medvedev for this situation to be scrutinized. After …

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September 1, 2010

More Pavlovsk on the web

There’s a very good report from Pavlovsk on Al Jazeera’s youtube channel. My only objection is to the reference to Pavlovsk as “one of only two botanical repositories on the planet.” And since we’re being all multimedia and social networky, I’ll also mention the photos on the Global Crop Diversity Trust’s Facebook page, which could …

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August 31, 2010August 31, 2010

Nibbles: Pavlovsk, Maize, Papaver somniferum, Organics, Zulu gardens, Feasts, Female farmers, Transhumance, Dogs

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. …

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