Nibbles: MCPD, Coffee pollination, WACCI & IITA get into bed, Quinoa value addition, Plant chemicals

Rejoice, the new edition of the FAO/Bioversity Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors (MCPD) are now available on-line!
Pollinators good for pollination shock. No, kidding apart, this is Pollinator Week and we should take note.
Another step in building plant breeding capacity in West Africa.
How to get quinoa cake on the menu of posh Bolivian coffee shops.
Virtual tour of my old stomping ground at the Cambridge University Botanical Garden includes a chemical trail. Which alas does not in turn include the main chemical we used to consume there.

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?