Nibbles: Livestock photos, Rice, Beer, Oca, Potatoes, Beer, Fermentation, Aquaculture, Chinese food, Citrus

ILRI images are online.
Rice farmers in Lao get an airing on Public Radio International.
Tonto: expanding head banana beer.
Rhizowen’s ongoing oca saga.
“Intellectual property vital for agricultural innovation.” Er .. riiiiiiight.
Instead of whinging, as we would, Laurent subverts the Blogger Bioblitz by including potatoes.
The British National Hop Collection comes in useful. Hey, you had me at hops.
Make better kimchi and the world will beat a path to your door.
How many species of aquatic animals do you think farmers use in SE Asia?
Labeling caviar.
China’s food culture on the move.
California’s oranges in big trouble.

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.