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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

• “…WFP’s partnership with the Millennium Villages Project would deploy the full range of the Programme’s tools and help utilize the Millennium Villages as a platform for best practices.” Good. But let’s just hope the villagers’ own best tool — agrobiodiversity — doesn’t get left behind.
• More on the Cotacachi agroecotourism project in Ecuador.
• Heritage tourism in the Virgin Islands targets old sugar cane mill.
• The “mango villages” of India.
• Pollination needs to go wild.
• Ok, so the CGIAR is going to re-organize itself into mega-programmes (look at the PDF at the bottom of the page), one of which is on “Crop germplasm conservation, enhancement and use.” Big deal? I wish I knew.
• Pssst, wanna discuss grape …

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