Nibbles: Innovative crops, twice, Seed saving, Jatropha, Cimmyt, Common ownership

Of course garlic and dill are innovative crops – if you live in the Pamirs.
So is Stevia, in Spain.
A big new book on saving your own seeds. Ignore the rhetoric, and don’t try this in Europe, folks.
Crops for the Future calls Jatropha a “debacle”. Hard to argue with that.
All about CIMMYT at an agro-biodiversity fair.
Put a price tag on natural resources, and you risk undermining common ownership.