Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Cary Fowler suggests a novel approach to developing policies for access and benefit sharing: Rather than start with the policies we may instinctively love and want, this pedigree shows us that we should begin with what we want to achieve, such as flood-tolerant rice, work backwards from there, and ask ourselves what policies will be …
Stuck at home in bed over the past few days I’ve amused myself by looking at trends in the volume of googling for “seed bank” and “Svalbard” and of news items about armyworm outbreaks. Anyway, here’s another one. It seems that there has been a steady increase over the past few years in news stories …
Nature has a (behind paywall) feature on Five crop researchers who could change the worldÂ. Rather than celebrating those who have arrived, Emma Marris highlights the work of five researchers who still have some way to go before reaching the Food Hall of Fame. These are her picks. Peter Dodds (CSIRO, Australia) works on the …
USDA goes to the closets. Brazil to teach Tunisia how to grow wheat. Exchange of germplasm involved. ICRISAT DG makes a pitch for dryland farmers. And aquaculturists? A plan for cacao sustainability in Africa agreed. Germplasm not involved? Americans eat a lot of corn. A lot. The romance of cheese-making. Romance? These people should get …
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The challenges for potato production in the Developing World. It is a delight to talk to people who are interested in food. My customers are only interested that they get delivery on time, the specification that they require, on time, and at the right price. One billion people eat potatoes every day. They are good …