Nibbles: Beef, Dairy, Resilience and vulnerability, Seed systems, Irony beans, Genebanks in the news, Catch a fire, Amazon, Spanish gardens, Conservation, Work exchange

What is the best beef in Europe?
When was the first yoghurt of the Neolithic?
How do you measure smallholder resilience? Or vulnerability, for that matter…
How does this Kenyan seed story differ from this Malian one?
How do you address iron deficiency in Rwanda?
What’s the value of a genebank?
There’s a downside to plant-derived smoke?
So what’s the latest paradigm shift on that ancient-people-in-the-Amazon thing?
How are the Spanish people coping with the crisis?
How come those transcribed podcasting, medal winning conservationists still don’t get it?
What are Ethiopians doing in Amazonia?

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?