Nibbles: Barley, Fellowship, Supplier, Malnutrition, choices, Rice and climate change

“[A]n ancient barley grain”. Just the one. One only. From Neolithic England.
Crawford Fund Fellowship “for an agricultural scientist from a selected group of developing countries whose work has shown significant potential”.
New World Seeds & Tubers, a supplier thereof.
Alternative remedies for late potato blight.
Mild underweight a better indicator of childhood malnutrition than severe. Press release and paper.
“Food or the environment? Mixed signals confuse farmers.” There has to be a choice?
Indonesia sorts out its rice-adapted-to-climate-change problem.

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?