Nibbles: Agave pollination, Sanjaya Rajaram, PGR policy history, Ex situ conifers, Botanic garden theft, Kyrgyz forests, Home nurseries, American chestnut, South Pacific action

Tequila and bats. Two of my favourite things.
Continuing the Mexican theme, we have a World Food Prize 2014 winner.
I wonder what he thinks of the changes he’s seen during his illustrious career in the international system for PGR conservation and use.
I bet there’s a few endangered conifers, and maybe some ex situ collections, in Mexico.
I hope there weren’t any among the plants stolen from the RBG Edinburgh recently.
But perhaps there were some fruits and nuts from Kyrgyzstan?
Well, the way to go is home nurseries, clearly.
Maybe even with the GM chestnut, why not?
Meanwhile, in the South Pacific, CePaCT has been really busy.