February 22, 2011February 22, 2011 by Jeremy Cherfas

Nibbles: Cassava, Brazil, Taro, Tobacco

High-protein, vitamin-A enriched cassava. It’s GM, but it doesn’t have to be. Apparently.
Resilience Science shows us the modernist face of intense and diverse agriculture in Brazil.
The Scientist Gardener gives taro, and our pal the TaroMeister, some respect.
A tobacco festival! Celebrating the diversity of cigars! In Cuba! (Where else?)

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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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