June 12, 2010June 13, 2010 by Jeremy Cherfas

Nibbles: Sunberry, CGIAR, Climate change, Ecosystem services, Sorghum beer, Turkeys, Ireland

Sunberry. Taste-free! Toxin-loaded?
CGIAR needs to do more “crop genetic improvement” for greater impact. Yeah, right.
Heavy hitters to brief US Congress on Climate Change and Agriculture, June 16.
Management more important than agricultural biodiversity in delivering ecosystem services? Say it isn’t so!
Sorghum beer a big hit with England soccer fans.
Turkeys domesticated for their feathers? This I gotta see.
(Irish) public understanding of biodiversity.

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1. 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.
2. If only annual crops were perennial, for example, eh?
3. 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.
4. If only improved seeds were open source, for example, eh?
5. If only we could cryopreserve coral, for example, eh? Wait, what?
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