Leftovers: Coconuts, Genebank, Vegetables, Famine, Danish, Bissap, Brazil nuts, Dates, Papas y mas, Fruit, Rice, Everything

We found these nibbles at the back of the fridge, and they’re not too mouldy, so lets fry them up before we get anything fresh.

• Boss of India’s agricultural research exhorts international coconut genebank to do more and be heard.
• And, first out of the gate for 2012, Nepal says it will create a new genebank for plants “on the verge of extinction”.
• Immigrant urban agriculture — in Cleveland, Ohio.
• Aid man Edward Carr interviewed: “drought does not equal famine”
• Meetings on “biodiversity” in Europe, under the Danish presidency. Indigestible?
• Hibiscus tea, what a tonic.
• Resources Research goes crazed for book about brazil nuts, and other Amazonian agrobiodiversity.
• A cure for Bayoud disease of dates? And it’s based on medicinal plants!
• Pueblos andinos reciben ejemplares de tubérculos nativos. Otra vez?
• Guerilla grafting? Now there’s an idea for “covert agriculture”. Wonder what the graftees think.
• “The giant panda of the botanical world”? Blimey. A new reserve for real wild rice.
• Huge Satoyama-style paper from Bioversity on THE USE OF AGROBIODIVERSITY BY INDIGENOUS AND TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES IN: ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE And they’re the ones doing the shouting.