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Nibble: Coconut, Punjab, Oak barrels, Schools, Podcasts, Origins squared, Apples, Fruit book

Coconut beetle attack in Cambodia.
Indian Green Revolutionary goes organic.
Forests leave fingerprint in wine.
School gardening in Ghana, farmer field school for women and children in Panama.
WWF launches podcast series “The Wild Things.” Bioversity to counter with “The Cultivated Things.”
Oldest pottery found in Chinese cave with oldest rice.
The transition to agriculture “was entered into slowly and reluctantly.” Evidence from the Netherlands, of all places.
Got an apple orchard? Wanna be a star?
Hunting down The Fruit Hunters.

The Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture re-launches its website. And also the Global Livestock Production and Health Atlas (GLiPHA). Must be an FAO thing.
“We are grateful to the governments who have made voluntary contributions to make this possible,” said Dr Shakeel Bhatti, Secretary of the Treaty’s Governing Body.
Bighorn sheep at risk from climate change, computer says.
The changing face of Japanese agriculture.
“We are blurring natural boundaries: forests are no longer forests, meadows are no longer meadows. We have lost sight of eternity and infinity and are destroying nature for future generations.”
Pope name-checks Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Qat not good for water.
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) announces Amsterdam Initiative on Malnutrition (AIM), to eliminate malnutrition for 100 million people in Africa by 2015.
Eating dates dates back over 4,000 years.
Intercropping with guava may save citrus from greening on Java.
To identify salinity tolerant eucalypts, use response of height to salinity, rather than mean height.