Nature: The Wheat Stalker
Njoro, Kenya (Jun 30, 2011) — David Cheruiyot noticed that his wheat fields were turning the wrong colour. The stems of the plants took on a sickly brown hue, and when he peeled open the heads there was no grain inside. “If you go to inspect it, there is nothing but dust,” he recalls. Ug99, [...]
Read MoreBLOG: Farming (Kenya)
A slight detour brought us to an unpaved road called the “Pipeline”, small holder farmers in the Rift Valley, a Saturday funeral and small children shouting, “Hello! How are you?”
Read MoreA Road Map to Deliver GM Crops to Third World Farmers
March 31 — In Burkina Faso, a school for the future regulators of Africa’s genetically modified (GM) crops is opening up next month. The school, called the African Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE), has been set up by the African Union and is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The operators are careful [...]
Read MoreSearching for the Wildest Strawberries to Save Crop Diversity
ClimateWire/ New York Times, Mar ’10– It has been a long journey for the latest shipment of seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The vault, built into a Norwegian mountain near the North Pole, is the final defense for agriculture in the face of growing populations, a changing climate and rising threats to food [...]
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