Nibbles: Plectranthus, Roads, Fast food, Dog food, Hybrid rice, Mapping climate change, Turf, Cassava, iPhone app, Zizania, Rice

Livingstone potato (Plectranthus) on the menu in Burundi. Yeah but what does it taste like?
The world’s roads mapped. About time too.
The world’s convenience food made better. Maybe.
Dog cooking pot from ancient China. Woof. Via.
Hybrid rice backfires. Via.
Mapping the impacts of climate change. Only country level though.
Native lawns better. But are they greener?
JSTOR does a cassava roundup despite hating tapioca.
Biodiversity monitoring? There’s an app for that.
Wild rice (not a wild relative of rice, mind, but sacred to the local Native Americans) vs the copper-nickel mining industry.
Slideshow on rice (the real thing) in Vietnam.

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?