Biodiversity v GM, or both?
Posted by annied in Kew Gardens, agriculture on 27. Oct, 2009 | Comments Off
From The Bigger Picture: Festival of Interdependence on Saturday last, Colin Tudge (author Feeding People is Easy) explains how important something like Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank Project is:
The New Food Panic: Scientists Call for Green Revolution 2.0 & FoE says No!
Posted by annied in FoE, agriculture on 21. Oct, 2009 | Comments Off
Well, it looks like world maybe headed for a second green revolution. None the least to do with the Royal Society for Agriculture’s new study that calls for £2 billion for R&D over the next decade. A new study from the International Food Policy Research Institute (find link Nelson et al) forecasts future crop yields based upon the IPCCs second worst scenario is 1.6 degree Celsius average rise in global temperatures combined with two climate change weather pattern models (NCAR & CSIRO). But Kew Gardens and Friends of the Earth both argue for biodiversity instead.