Nibbles: Mexico CC, Europe CC, Andean CC, CSA, Seeds, GIAHS, China genebank, Maize domestication, Coffee history, Conservation book

Interactive website on bioclimatic corridors in Mexico. Bits don’t work, though.
Interactive website on climate analogues for Europe.
How Andean farmers are coping with the kind of changes mapped above.
Oh dear, climate smart agriculture is a myth anyway.
But saving seeds isn’t, thankfully.
Still not enough linkage with the GIAHS, though, but maybe this course will fix that.
Maybe start with peafowl? China shows us how.
How maize became a staple: quite early, and quite quickly, basically.
Not much coffee in early English coffeehouses. Amsterdam’s coffeeshops unavailable for comment.
Open-access magnum opus: Conservation Research, Policy and Practice.

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?