ICARDA and partners have organized an international conference on Food Security and Climate Change in Dry Areas. Plenty of agrobiodiversity on its menu, no doubt. It starts tomorrow, and you’ll be able to get a blow-by-blow account on the CGIAR’s climate change blog, Rural Climate Exchange. And possibly here too, but we’ll see.
Bring on the meta-meta-analysis of organic agriculture’s benefits
Whether or not organic food brings nutritional benefits over conventional food has been a matter of considerable inquiry and debate. The issue came to a head last month when a study commissioned by the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) concluded that there is no evidence of nutritional superiority.
Now, however, a review published in the journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development has said drawn wildly different conclusions.
Oh, this will run and run, you mark my words…
Stop deforestation with pretty videos
With regard to the false choice between rainforests and beef, here’s a nice little bit of propaganda.
I expect it plays better on Central Park West and Holland Park than in Brazil or Indonesia, and a single tree downed by a chainsaw is no match for two Caterpillar tractors chugging through the rainforest linked by a massive chain. My question is this: what does the video, pretty and moving though it is, want me to do? All may be revealed on Earth Day 2010, apparently.
Thanks to Jeremy Yoder, who found it originally at kottke.
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Elizabeth synthesizes!
yes scientists do use social network tools like the common of human being! It is not incompatible with using books, inventories and databases. < … snip … >
I would suggest tagging this discussion with few keywords (perhaps using an automatic ‘tagger’ ), e.g. the name of the varieties involved in the pedigrees and trait names so we could link this discussion to a web site, to the content of a scientific or bibliographic database or a photos repository, etc.
Good thinking. We probably don’t make nearly enough use of tags for things like species names. NB: Commenters can add tags (I think).
A night out in Amman
Has a more joyous culinary celebration of agrobiodiversity ever been devised than the Levantine مَزة (meze)? Answers on a postcard, please.
