teaglingdfid.bsky.social
FCDO Climate and Food Security Adviser, general interest in intersection between climate and food systems, currently based in Accra.
Niche interest in metals in plants, both the good (minerals) and the bad (heavy metals) PhD in #biofortification
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Cliffhanger finish, parfait!
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I respect someone prepared to risk being put on a mi6 watch list ‘for a bit ‘ .
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Not sure it is higher yielding than parent ‘Three years of field trials in China show that the new strain emits 70% less methane than its commercial parent and produces almost twice the amount of grain per hectare compared with the global average, ‘….which is a bit ambiguous.
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Can we unpack this. Do you mean as in the slightly disappointing sequel ? also in Return of the Jedi , Luke (mark) very much wins? What's the angle here?
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Yes , but I’m biased and think one post it is too many .
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Indoor ag is where we have seen the largest yield increase in recent years (tomatoes and strawberries more than doubled ) . Advance greenhouse and poly tunnel tech are super exciting , but highly sophisticated vert farming is still far from moving from high value mico greens to food crops.
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I was a vertical farming evangelist after going to vert farm conference in 2014. It felt like it would eclipse all other agtech ( the same arguments around price and innovation in LED light recipes were made) . Ten Years on and they are still producing basil which retails at 40x the cost of rice.
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You misspelt Red Dwarf 😜
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And here's the link to the blog post mentioned in the article above. "What wears the hardness of hate away?
Breath, tears." www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/119-the...
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I didn't think I could admire her more than I did. This is beautiful.
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The fact there are people with Wikipedia pages born in 2007 makes me feel old 😞
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So about 18,000 Ugandans (0.16 tons per capita ). Thats a small town .
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That’s much more pleasant than the dark annual snowman cull I envisaged. I hope it’s that and he hasn’t just whitewashed snowmen’s true role in Christmas.
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There are snowmen though, with carrots for noses. Now I’m not accusing Santa of anything , just asking questions .
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What do you mean doesn't exist ? like for tax purposes ?
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You are ignoring the Product carbon footprint (PVF) of all his presents. Off shoring our carbon to Lapland looks good for NDCs but is not inline with 1.5 degree. #bahhumbug
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The spelling of Amphetamines is jarring , is that an accepted spelling ?
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Finally got a chance to read this is in full, hard agree with most of it. Looking forward to having you back at fcDo.
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And the correct answer is ? I thought it was what job your parents did at conception? basing this on my likely misremembering of @samfriedman.bsky.social's book.
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Ordered two of these , thanks for the holiday recommendations
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Reversing 10,000 years of selective breeding, while maintaining yields is going be hard. Great for an IPA but not feeding the planet anytime soon.
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"....India where the richest one per cent hold more than four times the total wealth of the 953 million people who make up the bottom 70 per cent of the country's population"..really made me rethink India's role in the climate debate.
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I assumed you meant big deals they had made , then I thought about it for literally a second 😞
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The r is an upside down J , they could only afford the designer to do 6 characters
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Rice ?
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Also should be called whitesky 🫤
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i have also read , and own your book . Big fan , quoted it in a job interview once (can't remember the details , it was something about why we need international science and I was explaining green revolution)
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Work in international dev , currently in West Africa , previously in East Africa, working on (among other things ) climate resilient food systems .
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Hey I work in international dev now but still use my plant science background a lot.
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Added to my to read pile