Carolina Ocampo Ariza

@carocampoa.bsky.social

Tropical ecologist, passionate about making agricultural landscapes sustainable and biodiverse

We explored how grafting select native cacao on grown plants could increase yield & conservation of genetic diversity. We debunk key myths. Native cacao can be: 🍫as productive as commercial clones 🍫and can be self-compatible! Many genotypes in a farm only works w/ frequent management Paper in 🇬🇧🇪🇸

Uni Göttingen@uni-goettingen.de · 3w ago

How to conserve fine-flavour native cacao? Some varieties have become rare due to the dominance of high-yielding crops for mass production. Researchers at our Uni & @bioversityciat.bsky.social studied grafting selected genotypes: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html..., doi.org/10.1007/s135...

Image is a photo showing a diverse selection of cacao fruits in yellow, green, orange and brown shades. The seeds inside are the cocoa beans which, when dried and fermented, are used to make chocolate liquor, cocoa powder and chocolate. Image thanks to Teja Tscharntke

Heute ist ein schlechter Tag für den Klimaschutz. Der Bundestag hat das Gebäudemodernisierungsgesetz beschlossen – und damit die Wärmewende ausgebremst. Ein klimapolitischer Rückschritt mit Ansage.

In a shocking discovery, scientific journal finds that people work better when actually paid for it. "A biology journal which paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

A biology journal which paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

nature.com

“Using immigration law to police political protest sends a clear message to non-citizens in Germany: speak out and you may risk losing your status – or being deported. The extent to which this plays into the hands of the far-right AfD seems lost on much of Germany’s so-called political centre.”

Hanno Hauenstein@hahauenstein.bsky.social · last yr.

Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step – my latest op-ed @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Se sabe q los polinizadores son importantísimos para producir 🍐🥑🍓🌮🍕, pero qué pasa con la calidad de estos alimentos? En nuestra nueva perspectiva discutimos cómo comunidades diversas de polinizadores producen también alimentos de mayor calidad y cómo promoverlo www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

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