Nibbles: Migration, Micronutrients, Taste, Kava, News, Data, Ozone, Chillis

Rats to New Zealand.
300 grand grant to develop an iron bullet.
Yummie, that tomato tastes very umami!
“When they call their toxic products â€˜kavaâ€™, they are misusing the word.”
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Gates Foundation helps FAO improve African agricultural statistics. About time someone did.
How to conserve rare plants.
As if climate change is not bad enough, there’s also ozone to worry about. Thankfully, Michigan is on it.
Boffin uses nanotubes to measure chilli hotness. Useful because some don’t like it hot.

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.