Lo bueno
Científicos de áreas distintas, y digo muy distintas, como climatólogos, sociólogos y nutriólogos, poniendo franca atención a la misma ponencia y complementando sus preguntas. Ambiente multidisciplinario en el sentido verdadero de la palabra. Y vasto en opiniones encontradas cuando de política y economía se trata. Bien ahí.
Lo malo
Latinoamérica fue prácticamente invisible. Sólo éramos un par de representantes. En cambio fácil un cuarto de la conferencia eran africanos y otro tanto de China o India. También faltó más sobre agrobiodiversidad y genética. De agrobiodiversidad detecté sólo un par de pláticas y de genética nada fuera de OGM.
Los puntos destacados
(Aquí resumo las notas que tomé desde mi twitter. Para versión completa visitar este link)
La seguridad alimentaria no es sólo hablar de calorías, sino de nutrición (aparentemente esto no fue obvio desde un principio)
Nutrition should drive our agenda (ie not only calories) S. Fan #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 12, 2015
Las mujeres jugamos un papel bien, bien importante. Pasado, presente y futuro:
If women had same access to tool/credits as men there would be 150 million fewer hunger people in the world. S. Fan #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 12, 2015
When men were hunting women were gathering seeds, and that's how domestication of rice started 10,000 years ago. @msswaminathan #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 12, 2015
Consejo para hacer que la investigación científica realmente aterrice en soluciones prácticas:
Allocate research in 3: needs, research, capacity. B. Campbell #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 12, 2015
Uso de tecnologías modernas, aka internet, celulares y símiles para hacer llegar la información a comunidades rurales y campesinos:
e-Chopal link at village level of buyers and sellers directed to small producers #gfs2015 pic.twitter.com/sASIQiiw4R
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 12, 2015
What is small farmers could get by SMS live market prices before going to sell their production? E. Gabre #gfs2015 pic.twitter.com/cVHqXebJfW
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 12, 2015
Learning about #plantwise, a network of plant clinics and knowledge bank directed to farmers #gfs2015 pic.twitter.com/3bc3x1qnUZ
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
Using apps and cellphones to spread info to remote places. Plantwise #gfs2015 pic.twitter.com/XbL3n2xEaY
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
Where plantwise currently exists and how #gfs2015 pic.twitter.com/7Q30SUKiUE
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
. @EleniGabre Ethiopia Commodity Exchange #ECX Anybody can trade with anybody and get paid the next day. #gfs2015
— alspray (@alspray) October 12, 2015
O también para colectar datos en campo:
How we conventionally collect data can change and use new technology. Importance: Ebola policy re food security changed N. Morrow. #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
So if I got it right @premisedata hires local people via Facebook and PayPal to collect data. And it works. @josephreisinger #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
Mucho también en percepción remota, modelos climáticos aplicados a estudios y modelos agrícolas:
Pinki Mondal managed to get crop phenological data of <2 ha farms in India using MODIS. Like. @environmondal #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 13, 2015
How do you connect pixel to people? Satellite crop phenology. Pinki Mondal #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 13, 2015
Marshall Burke says healthy plants are clearly visible from satellites in near infrared band #gfs2015
— Timothy S. Thomas (@DrTimThomas) October 14, 2015
Missed Marshall Burke's talk on measuring smallholder agricultural productivity from space because the room schedule changed. Sad. #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
This paper describes the AgMIP initiative @AlexRuane just talked about #gfs2015 http://t.co/OTcUOPBiFQ pic.twitter.com/Mt6zanJazN
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
The coordinated climate-crop modeling network currently. A. Ruane #gfs2015 pic.twitter.com/jIgyeOuofm
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
C3MP: all crop modellers welcome to join A. Ruane #gfs2015 pic.twitter.com/nJI0jjhN3Y
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
Geospatial assessment of climate change impact on Indian grain crops A. Punraj #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 13, 2015
Look to the past to imagine the future: Has rainfall variation affected rainfed rice in India? Yes: reducing yield 4-12% K. Singh #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 13, 2015
Connecting weather data, maize yield, price and fertilisation @DrTimThomas #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 13, 2015
Caveat of @DrTimThomas: not accounting for local variation among landraces with current data. But good thought experiment #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 13, 2015
Esto que no es exactamente de percepción remota, pero que tiene que ver con clima:
See list of publications by #Food #Climate Research Network & Dr Tara Garnett here: http://t.co/qHkUjLMafl #gfs2015 pic.twitter.com/xvI6ppfmP1
— FCRN (@FCRNetwork) October 12, 2015
De lo poco que se dijo sobre agrobiodiversidad y diversidad genética:
"We may not go back to the Inca's time of 500, 700 crops, but we must enlarge the food basket." @msswaminathan #gfs2015
— Leah Bevis (@leahbevis) October 12, 2015
Seeds banks are preservation of seeds, not conservation of evolution. @msswaminathan #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 12, 2015
Let's think on an evergreen revolution w/o ecological harm. @msswaminathan #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 12, 2015
We require much more conservation of #agrobiodiversity, which requires in situ on farm conservation @msswaminathan #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 12, 2015
Agrobiodiversity has been the major life saviour for rural areas @msswaminathan #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 12, 2015
Sin embargo sí hubo varios trabajos sobre aspectos participativos:
Effect of participatory farmer research on diversity. Malawi. Rachel Bezner Kerr #gfs2015 pic.twitter.com/JTWSVNLGyt
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
Effect of participatory farm research on food security. Malawi. Rachel Bezner Kerr #gfs2015 pic.twitter.com/SdT9Hm4rr7
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
Farmer to farmer (aka campesino- campesino) also where things are going in Malawi. Rachel Bezner. #gfs2015 pic.twitter.com/V7jRGSZwK6
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
Seeking to stimulate local innovation involving smallholder farmers in rainfed areas. A. Mishra. More here: http://t.co/UHbSBHcywS #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
Need for participatory communication in content development and delivery re food security #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
Community hunger fighters, a local man and a local woman by community. A programme in India @msswaminathan #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 12, 2015
También del lado social, hubo sesiones interesantes sobre cómo estudios de comportamiento humano pueden ayudar a modificar la dieta de las sociedades (obesas):
Just: People don't like feeling you act like a nany telling them what to do. Example: the Bloomberg effect #gfs2015 pic.twitter.com/5QPRLw2aLA
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 13, 2015
Change the name of a healthy burrito to Big Bad Burrito and kids will look more for it. Proven with hidden cameras. @DavidJust1 #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 13, 2015
Julian Walker-Palin: For retailers things need to be simple, they sell cans. Stop using terms like sustainable intensification #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 12, 2015
I want to lock you researchers in a room and make you translate food issues into a language that we all can understand @lmsibanda #gfs2015
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 12, 2015
Why consumers may not do the right decision on which food to acquire? @CorinnaHawkes #gfs2015 pic.twitter.com/PC5rshOJi9
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 12, 2015
Bonitos datos sobre el efecto del café certificado:
E. Lambin: 40% of coffee today has a "sustainable" label. The impact: #gfs2015 pic.twitter.com/WidSYDTPYd
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 13, 2015
Para cerrar, yo asistí a un café que discutió si pueden y deben subsistir las granjas pequeñas. El debate fue intenso. Muy breve resumen (aquí es cuando Latinoamérica hubiera tendio que decir más sobre agrobiodiversidad, mi voz penetró poco, pero fue interesante escuchar a las compañeras de África):
Remarks from the "how small is beautiful? Discussion group". Re small farms #gfs2015 pic.twitter.com/3WoDU4bp5W
— A.Mastretta-Yanes (@AliciaMstt) October 14, 2015
What researchers are thinking re: #smallholders #sustainability at #gfs2015. How small is productive & sustainable? pic.twitter.com/fAtPDBD50P
— Pinki Mondal (@environmondal) October 13, 2015
Links que tener en el radar
Herramientas ciber-teléfono dirigidas a pequeños productores:
https://www.plantwise.org/
https://www.echoupal.com/
https://esoko.com/
Proyecto común de modelos climáticos y agrícolas:
http://www.agmip.org/
Compañía "encuestadora" que recluta gente local:
https://www.premise.com/
