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Nibbles: Cryo primer, Ag development paradigms smackdown, Edible book, Roots & tubers conference, Deep taxonomy, WWF ag investment report, Forecasting rape disease, Amaranth, Competition

Science 2.0 Conservation 101 #fail.
It’s the roads, stupid. Well, not only. Cowen cowed.
Big book on the edible plants of Central America online.
Big root and tuber meet gets off the ground in Nigeria with pean for cassava.
How to link taxonomic names to everything
Responsible investment in agriculture. Mitt Romney alerted.
Video on diseases of oilseed rape, Rothamsted shares forecast (and it’s not good). So, is there any diversity in host response?
Amaranth, big time.
Correcting the capitalist tools on their misunderstanding of evolution. The tragedy is, they don’t seem to know they don’t know.

ICRISAT DG agrees with Bioversity DG. Kinda. CGIAR DGs communicating via blog. Who’d have thunk it.
Borlaug Global Rust Initiative gives its first Gene Stewardship Award to Nepali breeders. I wonder if they work with community genebanks at all. Or what they think about them. Or even if they know they are there.
GCARD 2 is coming, socially networked up the wazoo. Be afraid.
Authenticating natural health products via barcoding.
FAO discussion on making agriculture work for nutrition.
Nice photos of wild bees.
Not sure if we already linked to the big report on why biotechnology is not delivering drought-resistant crops.
Meet a Breeder. Conventional, natch.
Who moved my artisanal cheese?
Bird diversity on intensive farms like happy Tolstoyan familes: the same everywhere.
What’s a poor cacao farmer to do? Obey the law and make a loss, or break it in the hope of breaking even?
Kew does the crop wild relatives thing for Plantwise, and check out that picture!
Nature discovers perreniation as salvation of African soils; can resilieficiency be far behind?

Can cultivated species get their own Red List? Stefano Padulosi asks the tough questions.
Açaí: could the wonder fruit also be wonderful for forests? CIFOR asks the tough questions.
And more: You mean you can eat that?
Horticulture has rock stars? My turn to ask the tough questions.
Ok, so what US county is “…a hotbed of diversified, small-scale organic, natural processed food production”? Maybe not so tough.
Will there be a follow-up to Lancet’s 2008 series on malnutrition? That’s an easy one.
Luigi’s mother-in-law asks: Where can I get my hands on that drought-resistant tea?
Got any other questions? World Wide Views on Biodiversity wants to hear from you, this Saturday. (Answers too, I suppose.)

Stefano Padulosi of Bioversity tweets from the IUCN conference in Korea. And here’s another way of following proceedings: The Twitter Hub.
ICARDA forced to relocate.
Results of survey of farmer adaptation strategies in East Africa. (And CIFOR has more examples.) So why do they need Climate Analogues then? I mean, given what we know about it and all… Oh come on, it’s not as bad as all that, look they’re even using it in Costa Rica. Nobody likes a whiny user. Ok, ok, fair enough.
Branding not much use to farmers.
Kenyan banker agrees with my mother-in-law on the usefulness of trees.

National Heirloom Exposition coming up. Any of our readers going? Oh come on, one of our readers must be going!
Kew head honcho calls for a botanical New Deal.
WorldFish head honcho calls for an aquacultural New Deal.
A papyrus of recent botanical literature on ancient Egypt.
Coffee blogs to follow. Oh gosh, am I blushing?
Participants “gain more knowledge” at policy workshop. Of the ITPGRFA, that would be.
A couple of Chinese agricultural systems gain recognition as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage.