Nibbles: Goat, Wine, Heirlooms, Soil microbes, Climate change, Sorghum

“Is goat the most popular meat you’ve never eaten?” No. We both love it.
Winery recycles water. We recycle wine.
“I have tomatoes in my blood.” See a doctor, Amy.
Rice’s little friends the microbes, under intense scrutiny. Should IRRI be too? Or GRAIN?
“Even small-scale management of farm lands can immensely benefit from recent advances in climate prediction.” FAO is ready.
“We know that improved sorghum has better quality and high production value. But, given our reality of water scarcity, we prefer to plant traditional sorghum because it needs less water.”

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.