Plantains and Cassava

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Podcast episodes well worth listening to, to further or start to educate yourself on gravely important global issues such as agriculture. Especially in our time when climate change is increasingly affecting our capabilities for growing food. And notice I said "increasingly affecting": this is not new; this has been happening for longer than you can probably guess; it's just getting a whole lot worse. But on the good side, communication and information sharing technology - like, you know, the internet - is also increasingly aiding our abilities to actually deal with these problems, attending to them more quickly, hopefully more effectively and with the help of more people getting involved. Not to mention, of course, the great advances in sciences and technology that we can utilize in solving these problems.

Biotechnology in Uganda (First half of the episode.)

A Life Saving Banana for Uganda (First half of the episode.)

Solutions for Cassava - Biofortification and Characterizing Disease Vectors

Cassava Part 2: History, Domestication; Biotech Virus Resistance

I should have more to say about these larger, global agricultural issues at some point.