Nibbles: Légumes oubliés, Mazes, Poultry, Business, Roquefort, Herb, Evolution, Benin, Egyptian pigs, New York food, Cabbage pest control, Cider making

Francophones! Watch this. Report back.
Geographers! Play with this. Global collection of crop mazes.
Chicken fanciers and development officers! Read this (pdf). Increase assets, income and nutrition.
Agro-business! Respond to this. Please.
Cheese lovers! Watch this. Salivate.
Chemists! Find out why Teucrium tastes like apple. Or is it that apple tastes like Teucrium?
Females! Why are you horny?
Farmers! Get information to adapt to climate change.
Egyptian pig cull! Bad. No, good. No, bad…
Brooklynites! Wallow in ethnic cuisine.
Africans! Why bother with cabbage when you have so many much more interesting leafy greens?
Scrumpers! Get thee to Eden!

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.