Nibbles: Farmer suicides, Ethnobotanic gardens, Seaweed, Sweet potato origins, Sustainable livestock, Cacao

Farmer suicides in India blamed most recently on high food prices. The BBC debunks the numbers, and about everything else about the claims, without mentioning IFPRI.
Reviving the ethnobotanic gardens at the University of Kent in England.
Zanzibari women are successfully farming seaweed.
Sweet potatoes came from all over.
Unpacking sustainable livestock, one slide at the time.
Sandy Knapp et al. chase Solanum all over South America.
Everybody’s developing their own sustainable cocoa strategies. Not ideal.

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?