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January 20, 2011

CABI

Not sure how many people come across the cabi website by chance, but I find it an almost essential resource for both extending my teaching material and to set students off when undertaking independent research on a theme.

So what is cabi? Well in their own words “CABI is a not-for-profit science-based development and information organization. We improve people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. CABI helps address the challenges of food security by helping farmers grow more and lose less. We do this by improving crop yields, safeguarding the environment and improving access to agricultural and environmental scientific knowledge.”. However their web site is more than that: they host a very good ebook shop (admittedly not many free books but lots of hard to find topics), they host numerous research blogs and my favourite stuff their research area with up to date good material about invasive species and biological control.

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August 7, 2010

Making Foraging Relevant – for the eyes of anthropologists, biologists and environmentalists!

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Here’s an engaging podcast that you can assign as required listening (Hour 2,’Pt 2: Hunter-Gatherers’). The program includes an interview with Spencer Wells, who outlines the argument for why and how agriculture has led to high-cost civilization. His interview is easy to follow and also discusses the modern relevance of this argument in realistic terms (for example, he is very aware that we are not able to all become hunters and gatherers again). Well’s interview is coupled with Cordain’s views on the Paleo-diet (aka ‘the caveman diet’). It finishes off with Zuk’s critique of both Wells and Cordain.

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