Nibbles: Aberdeen, Sahelian agroforestry, Seed companies, Haiti seed donation, Seaweed, Taste, Books, Logging, Cheese boycott

100 years of agricultural research in Idaho. Includes genebank since 1988.
A Great Green Wall to go with Africa’s Green Revolution.
Selling seed from the back of a car. Jacob unavailable for comment.
Latest on that Haitian seed story.
Seaweed farming in Zanzibar. Nice gig if you can get it.
Taste is a complicated thing.
Gorge on brainfood. Lots of botanical science books made available by Smithsonian.
DNA fingerprinting to identify illegal logs?
Cottage cheese isn’t “just” cottage cheese, say Israeli activists.

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?