Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Lois Englberger of the Island Food Community of Pohnpei tells us that “Dana Lee Ling is doing some exciting work on conservation and promotion of Pohnpei banana varieties, along with his teaching at the College of Micronesia-FSM.” The College has an ethnogarden, which includes 14 banana varieties, among many other things.
So I guess you’ll have gathered the family and I were on holiday in the Marche region last week. One of the cooler places we visited was the Abbadia di Fiastra (that’s its cloister above). This is a romanesque abbey nestled in the middle of an ancient wood, which is now a protected area. Cistercian …
Convention on Biological Diversity’s head “Highlights Risks of Agricultural Biodiversity Loss.” Cowpooling. Guess what it means. Training opportunity: A global view of livestock biodiversity and conservation. FAO policy brief on sustainable development and agrobiodiversity. Thanks, Eve. The wonders of solanaceous grafting. Thanks, Jules. Build a better nutcracker. And then analyze all that data. Mapping cyclone …
Lois Englberger has alerted me to the fact that my former colleagues at the SPC nutrition section in Noumea have put six new Pacific Island Food Leaflets online. Well worth a look. CTA helped with the funding.
My friend and colleague Lois Englberger has just written to say that the building which housed the Secretariat of the Pacific Community office in Pohnpei and the headquarters of the Island Food Community of Pohnpei burned down during the early morning of 4 April. Losses were great, though thankfully nobody was hurt. Both SPC and …