Nibbles: Cacao, Forbes, Gum arabic, Bees, Private sector, Kumquats, Maize, Edible weeds, Herbs, Medicinals, Banana wine, Cachaca. Obamas’ dog

The history of cacao cultivation, breeding and conservation in Trinidad explained.
The latest update from Adam searching for seeds around the world. Go, dude.
“Uganda exports 0.1% of the world’s gum Arabica…” Hardly seems worth it.
Giving bees a hand. It’s hard to be a bee in the city.
An active participation is required from the private sector and non-government organisations to take technological advances in farming and its practices to the grassroots level.”
Kumwhat? Kumquat, that’s what.
Bush sells maize. Maize surrenders.
Let them eat weeds.
But don’t let Thais eat herbs!
Climate change bad for medicinal plants too.
Banana wine in Malawi. Pass the bottle.
How to make cachaca. A couple of friends and I once spent a night looking for the best caipirinhas in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Can’t remember if we found them.
First Dog found.

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.