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Leisa blogs!

E-LEISA is a quarterly newsletter that carries highlights from the global edition of LEISA Magazine and keeps you in touch with the LEISA Network.

And very interesting it is too: we’ve linked to it in the past. Well, LEISA now also has a blog. Been going a couple of months, and they have linked to us, and left us a nice comment, so we’ll repay the compliment.

A post from a few days ago discusses the importance of photographs “in communicating innovations and best practices in agricultural development.” We blogged a couple of days ago about how photos can be used to identify agrobiodiversity. 1 It turns out “DFID’s Research Into Use Programme (RIU) has published a Field Guide to Photography, produced by SCRIPTORIA Communications.” Looks excellent.

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Living Labs videos online

Television for Education-Asia Pacific (TVEAP) has a series of five-minute videos on YouTube highlighting the work of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food in some of the more important river basins of the world:

With water scarcity emerging as a global concern, we simply cannot continue the water-intense methods of the past. Yet, as human numbers increase, more food needs to be produced with the same — or shrinking — land. This calls for smarter, thriftier ways of using freshwater and increasing water’s productivity in agriculture, without damaging the environment, or undermining food security, jobs or health.

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Someone is wrong on the internet

Cavolo nero from http://flickr.com/photos/geomangio/396228137/ Vigilant as ever, duty calls. There’s a slim chance you may see an article in French about the famed Tuscan cabbage known as cavolo nero. It is my sad responsibility to tell you that bits of it are mistaken. 2 Most important, the photo is certainly not cavolo nero. If it were, it would hardly match her description. Cavolo nero is much more of a kale than a hearted cabbage, and if you were to look in the market for something resembling her picture (which looks to me like a very ordinary Savoy cabbage, or verza), you would not be getting the authentic black Tuscan kale.

Our picture, which is definitely the real thing, is from Geomangio at flickr; I can’t easily find one of the whole plant.