Stanford Blade, PhD KSLA
@drstanfordblade
DepDirector General - Research | Intl Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - Asia/Africa | www.cgiar.org | Fellow - Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture | QEII Platinum Jubilee Medal | Dean Emeritus www.UAlberta.ca
A superb day with our friends and partners from #MissionShakti in Bhubaneswar, Odisha where we sign our commitment to bring ICRISAT innovations to rural women to create opportunities for entrepreneurship in biochar, seedling nurseries, fibre extraction, food processing and more!
The glamour of travel - heading to the capital city of Odisha State - Bhubaneswar. We will sign an agreement with the Deputy Chief Minister to support women and women’s producer groups to create new businesses by value-addition for food, unique bioproducts and highly productive dryland crops.
Government in India and the State Governments are taking El Niño very seriously. Yesterday the Minister convened a meeting of all agricultural research institutes to develop a plan to allow farmers to pivot to shorter duration, low water use, soil-management crop opportunities.
Sometimes the old technology is the best-in this case transporting harvested lemons and other produce on the steep slopes of the Amalfi Coast (Ravello). They have a solid stairs game!
Villa Cimbrone Gardens #ravello #amalficoast Sound up for the cicada cacophony!
The Terrace of Infinity in the Villa Cimbrone Garden. Statue of Ceres. #ravello #amalficoast
The Tour de France begins in Barcelona (there is a tradition of beginning in neighboring countries)) tomorrow - fun teams presentation.
Gray langurs - mom, dad and baby. Also called Hanuman langurs.
Thank you @globalnews.ca.web.brid.gy for posting my image from our international agricultural research campus based in #Hyderabad #India. Can’t wait for the #Canada #SouthAfrica match which starts in the middle of our night! #worldcup
Winter solstice sunset vs summer solstice. #Hyderabad #India
The Government of #India now has 100+ million farmers linked to its GPS/advisory service #AgriStack. The app also has 250+ individual farm plots geolocated with cropping history. A remarkable achievement - but technology makes this achievable. #agriculture #science #GPS
When there is a lot of #biodiversity on your agricultural research station. #animals #wildlife
Snakes become more active at the onset of the monsoon season.
The aesthetic beauty of bullocks in Indian agriculture. #agriculture #farming
Central #India things! (The sounds of twilight are amazing)
Car wheels on a gravel road - in our family farm’s community.
So good to be home in #Edmonton for a few days! Nice visit to the U of Alberta - 10 amazing years as Dean.