Presentation by Neil Fantom at the D8 Open Data for Agriculture Side event at IFPRI on May 1, 2013.
Archive for May, 2013
Comparisons of protein profiles of beech bark disease resistant and susceptible American beech (Fagus grandifolia)
Beech bark disease is an insect-fungus complex that damages and often kills American beech trees and has major ecological and economic impacts on forests of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canadian forests.
Agricultural biodiversity plays key role in food and nutritional security
While over 1 billion people are overweight and obese around the world, an estimated 868 million are undernourished. This paradox is explored in a new book, Diversifying Food and Diets, co-edited by Bioversity International scientist Danny Hunter who is…
‘Nature’ takes a hard look at the ‘messy middle ground’ — the ‘difficult adolescence’ — of GM crops
The leading British science journal Nature has published a special issue on GM crops: Promise and reality (2 May 2013). This hub of updated science-based information on GM crops includes feature news stories, commentaries, a podcast and more.
Symposium on Indicators of Resilience in socio-ecological production landscapes
As part of the International Satoyama Initiative and the UN University Institute of Advanced Studies, Bioversity International recently met with partners to further discuss the use of resilience indicators in socio-ecological production landscapes.