Nibbles: Community forestry, Fresh water, Salinity, Seed systems, Acacia, Iron, Cambodia

Community forestry not making enough money in Namibia. Yeah, but who is?
Southern African freshwater bodies in trouble. Gotta be some worried rice wild relatives out there.
Salinity increasing in Bangladesh. That can’t be good.
Let the people have seeds of local varieties!
Australian takes acacias to Niger, coals to Newcastle.
Breeding rice for tolerance to high Fe in West Africa.
“One of the most abundant sources of fish in Asia, the lake feeds a hungry nation.”

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.