Biodiversity & Agriculture in the News 2008 // In the News Tuesday // 1.18.2022 Biodiversity & Agriculture in the News Each day the CBD Secretariat conducts a global Internet search for relevant news stories. The following stories collected over the last seven days relate to agriculture and biodiversity. 14 January 2022 ‘Not enough water’: Cambodia’s farmers face changing climate Aljazeera, 2022-01-14 During Cambodia’s monsoon season, rice farmer Sam Vongsay’s backyard fills with water and the plastic trash of his houseboat-dwelling neighbours as the Tonle Sap lake grows with floodwaters from the Mekong River. More: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/1/14/nothing-to-harvest Milk without the cow: Cellular agriculture could be the future of farming, but dairy farmers need help The Conversation, 2022-01-14 A new wave of cow-less dairy is hitting the market. In the United States, Perfect Day is using genetically modified fungi to produce milk protein for ice cream at a commercial scale. And pre-commercial companies, like TurtleTree and Better Milk, are engineering mammary cells to produce human and cow milk in laboratories, although these remain in the early stages of development. More: https://theconversation.com/milk-without-the-cow-cellular-agriculture-... Large Herbivores May Improve an Ecosystem’s Carbon Persistence EOS, 2022-01-14 Wildlife and open-canopy ecosystems like grasslands are rarely a part of discussions surrounding climate change mitigation. Now, a new review points to interactions between wild herbivores and vegetation to show how restoration efforts could be optimized by aligning climate goals with biodiversity conservation. More: https://eos.org/articles/large-herbivores-may-improve-an-ecosystems-ca... 13 January 2022 On agrobiodiversity, the Andes can teach the world much about crop conservation (commentary) Mongabay (India), 2022-01-13 Two of the world’s most ubiquitous and important crops have a 7,000-year-old backstory, which can be traced to the Andes in South America, where maize and potatoes have long been cultivated for food. More: https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/on-agrobiodiversity-the-andes-can-te... 11 January 2022 Veg diet plus re-wilding gives 'double climate dividend' BBC News, 2022-01-11 One hundred billion tons of carbon dioxide could be removed from the air by the end of the century through veggie diets plus re-wilding farmland. More: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59941016
Biodiversity & Agriculture in the News Each day the CBD Secretariat conducts a global Internet search for relevant news stories. The following stories collected over the last seven days relate to agriculture and biodiversity. 14 January 2022 ‘Not enough water’: Cambodia’s farmers face changing climate Aljazeera, 2022-01-14 During Cambodia’s monsoon season, rice farmer Sam Vongsay’s backyard fills with water and the plastic trash of his houseboat-dwelling neighbours as the Tonle Sap lake grows with floodwaters from the Mekong River. More: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/1/14/nothing-to-harvest Milk without the cow: Cellular agriculture could be the future of farming, but dairy farmers need help The Conversation, 2022-01-14 A new wave of cow-less dairy is hitting the market. In the United States, Perfect Day is using genetically modified fungi to produce milk protein for ice cream at a commercial scale. And pre-commercial companies, like TurtleTree and Better Milk, are engineering mammary cells to produce human and cow milk in laboratories, although these remain in the early stages of development. More: https://theconversation.com/milk-without-the-cow-cellular-agriculture-... Large Herbivores May Improve an Ecosystem’s Carbon Persistence EOS, 2022-01-14 Wildlife and open-canopy ecosystems like grasslands are rarely a part of discussions surrounding climate change mitigation. Now, a new review points to interactions between wild herbivores and vegetation to show how restoration efforts could be optimized by aligning climate goals with biodiversity conservation. More: https://eos.org/articles/large-herbivores-may-improve-an-ecosystems-ca... 13 January 2022 On agrobiodiversity, the Andes can teach the world much about crop conservation (commentary) Mongabay (India), 2022-01-13 Two of the world’s most ubiquitous and important crops have a 7,000-year-old backstory, which can be traced to the Andes in South America, where maize and potatoes have long been cultivated for food. More: https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/on-agrobiodiversity-the-andes-can-te... 11 January 2022 Veg diet plus re-wilding gives 'double climate dividend' BBC News, 2022-01-11 One hundred billion tons of carbon dioxide could be removed from the air by the end of the century through veggie diets plus re-wilding farmland. More: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59941016
