Sunny rain
A sunny rain shower: perfect light Maybe I should sort my photo galleries by season and track down climate changes in the Cotswolds. It was very amusing to watch journalists spread across the country,...
View ArticleImportant scientific discovery
As many of you know… OK, scratch that. Maybe some of you know that the Condor is a huge vulture that can only be found in the New World, mostly in the Andes and a species in California. Well, I think...
View ArticleClimate smart agriculture
Some time ago I warned you that I would start writing about environmental sustainability and other issues that are more related to my day job. In between dealing with the PhD saga and attending...
View ArticleAre we about to make the same mistakes again?
This is the question I have recently discussed on the blog of the Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC 2014). As you may have noticed, I’m particularly interested in agriculture, livestock, food...
View ArticleThe cause of hunger is poverty
What a beautifully written article from Eric Holt Gimenez, Executive Director at Food First, Institute for Food and Development Policy, on the Huffington Post, about the, dare I say, “Feeding the 9...
View ArticleSustainability & co.
I’m thinking of including posts on sustainability, in particular related to agricultural production, ecosystem services, small-scale farming and sustainable rural livelihood. The topics might be...
View ArticleGalápagos Islands are one of the last sharks sanctuaries (in Spanish)
This is in Spanish, but I hope it is of interest anyway La Reserva Marina de Galápagos es considerado uno de los últimos santuarios de tiburones. Se tiene registros de, al menos, 33 especies con...
View ArticleA ‘nursery’ for Hammerhead Sharks in Galápagos
https://videopress.com/embed/MKzlXyOa?hd=0&autoPlay=0&permalink=0&loop=0 Por vez primera se descubrió un sitio de crianza natural de tiburones martillo en la Reserva Marina de Galápagos....
View ArticleWEBINAR – Sustainable pitahaya production in an agroforestry system — H2020...
Project Partner INIAP (Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias) in Ecuador is organising a webinar on sustainable pitahaya production in agroforestry systems. The webinar takes place this...
View ArticleNew Comic! “Living with Covid” While Clinically Vulnerable: A Real-Life Story...
A much needed reminder that the pandemic isn’t over and that not all clinically vulnerable people “look sick”. (Sara) Announcing our newest comic, ‘”Living with Covid” While Clinically Vulnerable: A...
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