Nibbles: Brazil, Canada, Book, Lebanese food, Threatened dispersal, Jeanne Baret, Avinoam Danin

In Mato Grosso, deforestation rates fell as agricultural production rose. I know.
“Imagine Ontario without … a maple leaf.” It’s easy, if you try.
Got a case study in Community Based Adaptation (to climate change)? A book author wants to hear from you. h/t CAPRi.
And here are some case studies on local foods and nutrition, from Lebanon.
BBC reports on an Indian study: Plants at risk from seed dispersal threats. No mention of seed systems, formal or informal, that support agricultural plants.
First woman to circumnavigate the world was a botanizing French herbalist.
Veteran Israeli botanist interviewed, mentions crops wild relatives without actually calling them that.