The biofortification debate continues to continue

Sorry everyone, but I totally forgot to remind you all that Jeremy would be presenting a GROW webinar on biofortification yesterday. But fear not, the recording will be up soon, and of course Jeremy interviewed one of the authors of the Global Food Security paper behind the whole thing last year. Yes, he interviewed himself, take it up with him. Anyway, there was a reply to the paper. To which there was reply… No word yet on whether there will be a reply to the webinar.

Brainfood: Beverage edition

Brainfood: EU landraces, EU GIs, Citizen fruit scientists, Nordic potatoes, Czech wheat, German wheat, Wild Brassica collecting, Chinese & European soybeans, Italian goats

The outline of a deal for a better MLS?

Where are we with the whole enhancing the functioning of the Plant Treaty’s Multilateral System thing? I’m glad you asked. You’ll remember that

[h]istorically, parties have been divided between creating a subscription-only system of payment upon registration, and maintaining a single-access option along the lines of the benefit-sharing payments under the current SMTA.

Well, at a meeting of the relevant committee last week in Rome there was a proposal from the co-chairs for a…

…single subscription mechanism with two alternative triggers for mandatory monetary benefit-sharing: an early payment upon registration or a deferred payment upon commercialization of a product incorporating material from the MLS.

Much remains to be done, but this is being seen as a bit of a “procedural breakthrough.” Fingers crossed.

Brainfood: Diverse ecologists, Wild vs cultivated, Ecosystem services, Indigenous people, Mixtures, On-farm trees, Monitoring protected areas, Social media & protected areas, Wild harvesting, Land sparing vs sharing, Agroecology & plant health, Wild vs cultivated