“Genetic and species diversity of crops, trees, livestock, fish, pollinators, microbes etc etc”
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University of Wisconsin-Madison plant breeders have developed a new oat variety that’s significantly higher in the compound that makes this grain so |... 
RT @NewIndianXpress: ‘India’s gene bank up for sale’: http://t.co/3kmuYMye #genebank... 
RT @Mike_WorldFish: Indonesian farmed tilapia to the Olympics! 
RT @ILRI: #ILRI blogpost: Catalogue of high-quality photofilms that highlight connection between people and livestock now… http://t.co/FBTi7Wrc... 
Well of course they do. 
Indigenous and Traditional food systems of Asia and the Pacific (Indigenous and Traditional food systems of Asia and the Pacific. That would be a symposium. Soon... Any tweeps going? 
The Agrobiodiversity Grapevine. Providing readers with information resources about PGR, agrobiodiversity, conservation and livelihoods. About. Posted by: Bioversity Library | May 21, 2012 ... 
AllAfrica.comFact Sheet: G-8 Action on Food Security and NutritionAllAfrica.com...
Peninah Mwangangi has a smallholder farm in the arid region of Kitui, in eastern Kenya. She explains how using local traditional food crops have helped mitigate against harvest loss when the rains don't come.
RT @eol: Tuesday May 22 is International Day for Biological Diversity. http://t.co/jkH7wP5C What will you do to celebrate? 
An initiative to end extreme poverty.(RT @rajshah: Outstanding, must-read editorial from the @washingtonpost re our #G8 announcement tomorrow: http://t.co/t7CPjQPd...)... 
No, it was cats. 
Fascination of Plants Day is a chance to celebrate plant scientists working to feed the world, improve health and develop sustainable energy supplies (RT @JohnInnesCentre: from @guardiansciblog - Coffee-powered cannabis cars and bambara breakfasts... |
A new flagship publication from the International Food Policy Research Institute provides an in-depth look at food price volatility, extreme weather shocks, famine, unrest, and conflicts, and suggests areas for future action. RT @BioversityInt: Happy World Day for Cultural Diversity 
RT @LizWilsonUK: Aquatic Agricultural Systems http://t.co/9mvlLVQX with Farming Waters, Changing Lives film by @Duckrabbitblog... 
They have forever been seen as a symbol of Wales – for better or worse. But the humble Welsh sheep has been issued a stark warning in the face of climate change: “adapt or die”. 
One hundred of the most endangered habitats in the world are to be restored in a major global project. (Botanic gardens get together to restore degraded ecosystems. 
On the 27th April, a seminar on 'Agro-biodiversity and Ecological Agriculture' was organized by Development Research Communication and Services Centre (DRCSC). Prof RN Basu, former Vice Chancellor of Kolkata ...
The story thus far: Our plucky heroes have traced Triticum monococcum C68-101, the wild parent of a tetraploid wheat (Line 149) with interesting salinity tolerance genes, to the University of Sydney. Maybe.
ericrstoner has added a photo to the pool:
Monkey-pot fruit or castanha-sapucaia (Lecythis ollaria ou L. Shot in glorious technicolour, perfect for capturing the vibrancy of hues on display, World Garden explores the diverse flora and fauna of Kew Gardens. 
By Roger Thurow Roger Thurow, author of the new book, The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change, is senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. 
RT @KamounLab: This just out: Crop plants with DNA deletions are not #GMO. The Livingstone Online website coming up pretty much out of the blue on my Facebook timeline a couple of days back reminded me that I had wanted to point to the online database of the Kew Economic Botany Collection, if (Kew doesn’t store seed... |
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