Nibbles: Bent, Rice, Cheez, Pavlovsk, Millennium Seed Bank, Livestock, EUCARPIA

Fine memoir of Sir Bent Skovmand. Thanks Dag.
Rice yields falling — and not just in experimental stations. The paper.
In all the eulogies to the inventor of the Cheez Doodle, a note of truth.
You could buy the Pavlovsk genebank site for just USD3.3 million, it says here. Is that even doable?
Meanwhile, over in England, Researchers Rush to Fill Noah’s Ark Seed Bank While Politicians Bicker.
Meanwhile, in Australia, worries about declines in livestock diversity.
EUCARPIA’s meetings calendar. Handy.

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?