Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Egged on a bit by Wally Falcon, Chris Fedor of Stanford University basically says in a new article that the best way to combat Ug99 is not to grow wheat. Well, not really. Rather, that if more money had been spent in the past on crops that are not wheat (or maize or rice or …
Why bother building and maintaining huge robotic genebanks, I hear you ask? They’ll just take over the world and we’ll end up having to deal with the Terminator in a few years’ time, no? Well, as it happens there are two pieces today on the Worldwatch Institute’s blog which explain the reasons. Yassir Islam of …
Two stories of collaborative crop improvement — past, present and future — and the genebanks that underpin it to end the week with. From an IRRI press release out today on IRRI’s collaboration with the Philippines: Filipino farmers have adopted more than 75 IRRI-bred high-yielding rice varieties since 1960, have greatly improved their fertilizer and …
Great photo-essay on the water buffalo. A renaissance of gin production in London. Cheers! Not bad photo essay on the salmon migration. Special issue of Ethnobotany Research & Applications on banana domestication. Afghanistan readies for Ug99. Because it doesn’t have enough problems already. Saving red rice. Note comment from Bhuwon.
“We don’t want to suggest that the sky is falling, but major losses could occur if the right set of conditions converges,” Mundt said. “This is something that we shouldn’t take a chance on. It’s already spread to Iran, and the new research shows that its global spread may be about to pick up speed.” …