Nibbles: AGRA, Andean potatoes, farmer factsheets, tequila, Dogon, yak milk

AGRA’s first eight PhD students get to work.
Papa Andina Regional Initiative assessed by CGIAR CAPrI. Can’t be bothered reading the whole thing? Try this.
Factsheets for farmers in Kenya and Uganda; Luigi’s MIL not available for comment.
Tequila for lunch: Jeremy comments: “Wish I could be at this seminar, at the University of California, Davis”.
Dogon agriculture 101.
Got yak milk?

One Reply to “Nibbles: AGRA, Andean potatoes, farmer factsheets, tequila, Dogon, yak milk”

Well Jeremy, we didn’t record it but you could always check out the great “Beer versus Wine” debate between Andy Waterhouse from our Department of Viticulture and Enology, and Charlie Bamforth, professor of malting and brewing at UC Davis.

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Fresh Nibbles

A paean to diverse diets is just what we all need.
And another one, from the MIT Technology Review of all places.
Menawhile, there’s only one reference to dietary diversity in the World Bank’s investment framework for nutrition.
Maybe you have to quantify that diversity before you can save it? Now where have I heard that before?
Meanwhile, Europe reports on biodiversity-friendly farming practices. Does that include the biodiversity of the actual crops? Perhaps surprisingly, yes!
You want biodiversity-friendly farming practices? Talk to Indigenous people. The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has launched an e-consultation on “Preserving, strengthening and promoting Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems and traditional practices for sustainable food systems.”
There’s diversity in asparagus too.
Genebanks can help with those biodiversity-friendly practices, diverse diets and rops and Indigenous practices.
Even big international genebanks.
Even the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
But some are in trouble.
Though others are coming back.

Published on November 7, 2024