Nibbles: CBNRM, Extension, Seed systems, Climate change book and conferences, Cassava, Endophytes, Old Irish Goats, Plant Cuttings, Ethnobotany, Weeds

Designing the next generation of community-based natural resource management projects. No agriculture. Weird. Well, not so much actually.
Extension systems have a website! Yeah but do they need one?
Informal seed system working just fine in Indian Himalayas. So maybe the extension system is not needed? But, hey, they have a website, did I mention that?
Climate Change and Crop Production: The Book. And: The Conference. No but wait, here’s another.
The unusual crop that is cassava.Yeah, but in The Economist?
” …among the largest collections of endophytes…” Not a lot of people know that.
Old Irish goats (and others, to be fair) meet to talk about, well, Old Irish goats.
The great Plant Cuttings.
How to design an ethnobotanical garden. Would coca find a place?
Musings on the evolution of weeds.

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?