Nibbles: Maize, CWRs, CBD, Icelandic food, Coffee, Incense, Biodiversity Day, Medicinals, Farmers’ rights

The history of tejate in Mexico illuminates “central irony of globalization.” Cheers!
WWF says crop wild relatives and landraces in centres of diversity are threatened. Right.
Danny Hunter reports along much the same lines from COP9, and then reports some more. Such a workhorse!
The intricacies of Nordic food preparation. Would you say this was cooked, Jeremy?
Today’s how-x-changed-the-world story brought to you by coffee. Great after rotten shark too.
Frankincense is good for you. Hippies comment at length.
Jeremy earns his keep.
TRAFFIC promotes project â€˜Saving Plants that Save Lives and Livelihoodsâ€™ at COP9, including with video.
And the websites just keep on coming. One on Farmers’ Rights launched too.

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.