Nibbles: Student, Sea cucumbers, Reindeer, Climate change, Urban beeking, Taro diseases, Markets, Apples

Adam Forbes updates us on his travels in Ethiopia and Peru in search of seeds. Check out his pix too.
“…sea cucumber populations across the globe, from Asia to the Galapagos, are increasingly in trouble.” Oh dear.
Satellites help reindeer herders by looking for snow melt. Sounds very cost-effective.
IFPRI says agriculture will be “dramatically” affected by climate change. Oh dear.
Keeping bees in cities.
All you ever wanted to know about taro diseases. With pic goodness! Via.
Walking London’s markets.
Navarre: “276 varieties of autochthonous apple tree have been described.”

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.