Nibbles: Coffee, British orchards, Wild foraging, African agriculture, Sesame, Taro wine, African beer, Brazilian pastures, Hemp

First of all, I need a cup of coffee.
Stop Press: Britain’s orchards neglected. Prince Charles to be called in to help?
Eating the wild, in San Francisco and San Diego.
IFAD on what African farmers need: infrastructure, insurance, investment. Apparently.
Harvesting sesame in Greece: The video.
Filipinos make wine from Hawaiian traditional food. Strange the Hawaiians hadn’t thought of that. But perhaps they did.
And while we’re on the subject of booze…
Destroying the Pantanal and Cerrado in a sustainable manner.
Hey, it’s Hemp History Week! And you know how to celebrate that, don’t you.

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?