Nibbles: Bamboo shoots, Cassava bread, Tomato reefer, Visionary scientists, Price volatility, Potato nutrition, Climate change & biodiversity

After artichokes and asparagus, bamboo, obviously.
And after bamboo? Cassava, by any of its many names.
Botanical confusion: “Good tomatoes are a lot harder to get than good pot.” Not where I come from.
The Union of Concerned Scientists is concerned about US agriculture.
Per Pinstrup-Andersen is concerned about food price volatility, not high food prices.
And Jeremy is concerned that he may not be eating enough potatoes.
Luigi, for his part, is concerned about the two thirds of common plants that CIAT et al. say could lose 50% of their range by 2080.

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?