Nibbles: Hemp, Wheat, Wheat, Conservation, Liberia, Carnival, Climate change, Satoyama, Leafy greens

The National Cannabis Collection in Hungary. Undated. Popped up. What can I tell you?
CIMMYT’s wheat atlas. Still in beta. What can I tell you?
And here’s a primer on spring vs winter wheat.
Director of European Crop Protection Association equates biodiversity with wildlife. Well, he would, wouldn’t he?
Liberian President Sirleaf: “Agricultural growth is more effective in reducing poverty than any effort in any other sector.” h/t NtP.
New edition of Scientia pro Publica blog carnival.
Our friend Ehsan’s Seeds for Needs project launches in Papua New Guinea, beating climate change to the punch.
The Satoyama Initiative has a website. And RSS feed.
“…traditional food crops … are an important source of community resilience in Zimbabwe—including resilience to climate change and economic turbulence.”

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?