Nibbles: Scuba rice, Climbing beans, Bees, Forests and food security, New avocados, Land grab, Homogenocene, Drought, Fibre, Organics, CBD, Bean breeding, Rice record

The CGIAR Consortium finds a CGIAR success story. While the Guardian does another.
Talk on honeybee diversity at UC Davis. Hopefully Robert will be available for comment. Meanwhile, across the Pond…
Seeing the food security for the trees.
Yeah I’m just not sure it’s such a good idea to name a new avocado variety Uzi, no matter how good it may be.
Deconstructing the global land rush. And here’s the data… Jatropha everywhere.
The deep roots of globalization. Move over jatropha.
More on that paper on how to recognize a relatively drought-tolerant species.
All tangled up in natural fibres.
How to read organic agriculture debates. Just in case you actually want to read them.
An Indian prepares for the Convention on Biological Diversity‘s meeting in Hyderabad in October. Not too early, is it?
Bean breeders! Funding alert! You have nothing to lose but your diversity.
India posts world record rice harvest — using System of Rice Intensification. Take that, doubters.