- 40 years of AVRDC celebrated. Lots more stuff on vegetables below, so stick around if that grabbed you.
- Breeding with farmers, an ICARDA manual. Are there any examples with vegetables, I wonder?
- Let’s Go Local! See the ABC piece before it disappears from the front page. But it’s not just karat bananas that you need, of course.
- Going local in Philippines too. And India for that matter. And, ahem, Arkansas. Oh and Amazonia.
- Another use for baobab. I feel a factsheet coming on.
- And here are some utterly different fruits.
- Talking AnGR in Latin America.
- GIFT tilapia in India! Look it up, we did a Brainfood on it.
- A Belgian milestone. Put out more flags.
- Is it Cinco de Mayo yet? Well, break out the tequila anyway.
- Is it World Donkey Day yet?
- “Farmer associations hope TME 419 will soon spread across the whole country.” That would be a fancy new cassava in DRC. Anybody worried about that at all?
- Plant diversity key to zzzzzzzzzz…
- Well this will wake you up.
A Belgian milestone
Just out of curiosity, I downloaded the lot.
Here’s a count of how many (including Belgian Bananas in transit),
and where:-
662 … Centre de Recherche Agronomique de l’Etat,
Station d’Amélioration des Plantes
2223 … Phytotechnique des Régions intertropicales,
Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques
335 … Government Plant Breeding Station
55 … Rijkscent. v. Land. Onderzoek Rijksstation
v. Populierenteelt
1867 … National Botanical Garden of Belgium
3134 … Département de Lutte Biologique
et Ressources Phytogénétiques,
Centre de Recherches Agronomiques de Gembloux,
Ministere des Clas((sses Moyennes))
370 … Station de Cultures Fruitières/Maraîchères,
Centre de Recherches Agronomiques de l’Etat
353 … Centre de Recherches Agronomiques de l’Etat,
Station de Haute Belgique
1182 … INIBAP Musa Germplasm Transit Centre,
Catholic University Leuven
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10181 Total
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