Nibbles: Vavilov, GOSPs, Robot rice, Carrots, Crisis, Shade cacao, Churro sheep of the Navajo, Sorghum beer, Papal diet, chocolate, Carnival

World Genepool at the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry and Its Utilization in Agriculture. Anyone got a copy?
Gloucester Old Spot pigs get protection. Not that they really need it.
BASF takes hi-tech breeding to the next level: 40,000 individual rice plants on a robotic ride to the future.
Rebsie does carrots.
The perfect storm is one element of the triple crisis.
Nitrogen-fixing shade trees really do feed young cacao trees.
“Sheep is your backbone.”
Bringing gluten-free sorghum beer to the huddled masses … of Colorado.
Eat like a pope. (Not much diversity.)
Cadbury heiress fancies starting a new chocolate company? Maybe she’ll go all varietal.
Scientia pro Publica. Carnival time again.

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?