Nibbles: ICUC as was, Rice in Africa, Gardens, Botanical news, Durian, Fish and climate change, Nutrition in India video, Viruses in sweet potatoes, CBD, Wild tomatoes, Forst-tolerant apricots

Change at the helm at Crops for the Future. Best wishes to all concerned.
African Rice Congress wraps up. Successfully, no doubt.
Tell you Sacred Garden story. Go on then…
Nigel Chaffey rounds up botanical news. The best of the kind, for my money.
The art of eating durian.
Bye, and thanks for the fish.
DFID on undernutrition in India. Very short on specifics. Where’s the varied diets stuff?
Gotta virus clean those heirloom sweet potatoes.
Latest from CBD ABS negotiations in Cali. Anybody there want to give us the scoop?
Endemic wild tomato relatives from Atacama Desert… I dunno…investigated I guess.
Russian boffin grows apricots in Siberia.

Big IUCN report says that biodiversity and agriculture are in conflict, they don’t really need to be, but it’s really complicated for them not to be. So that’s us all told.
If only annual crops were perennial, for example, eh?
If only we incorporated more sustainable agriculture in education, for example, eh? Apart from anything else we could still have beer. No word on the role of perennial barley though.
If only improved seeds were open source, for example, eh?
If only we could cryopreserve coral, for example, eh? Wait, what?