Nibbles: Interactive key, Cider tax, Drought screening, Egyptian genebank, USDA animal conservation, Homegardens, Bag farms, Soil movie, Breeding Vigna, Cereals yield gap,

Got a Neotropical flowering plant to identify? Kew has what you need.
New Labour goes out with a whimper, and a swipe at cider-makers.
Drought Timing for Agronomic Screening wins a prize.
“We’ve heard about the Gene Bank project which serves to preserve certain cultivars and seed specimens, but we don’t know much else about this project.” Par for the course.
Meanwhile, another genebank does get decent publicity.
Women and homegardens in Bangladesh.
Bag farms in Nairobi slum.
Review of Dirt! The Movie.
Boffins this close to drought-tolerant cowpeas.
“…actual grain yield in some regions is already approximating its maximum possible yields while other regions show large yield gaps and therefore tentative larger potential for intensification.”
The wife is going to the 1st International Symposium on Tropical Horticulture. Jamaica? No, she really wanted to go.

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?