Nibbles: Apples, Agave, Argentina, Araucanas, Egypt, Agro Pastorale, Add-on benefits, Oil Palm

Dave’s Garden does the apple forests of Almaty.
Agave nectar sweetens the prospects of Otomi women in Mexico.
Rhizowen investigates silverweed while taxonomists slug it out: Potentilla anserina or Argentina anserina?
Just what the urban poultryperson needs: a hotel for chickens.
National Gene Bank of Egypt website untouched.
A diplomat visit’s Cameroon’s Cornice Agro Pastorale, and is impressed.
Tackling climate change benefits health … and vice versa.
Almost certainly more than you needed to know about Palm Oil palm.

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?