Nibbles: Markets, Easter Island, Honey, Coffee, Cowpea, Morocco, Urban Ag, Kenya

I love pictures of agrobiodiversity in markets.
Humans did for trees on Rapa Nui after all, not rats.
Like refining chocolate, extracting honey is a fragrant, messy process. Bring it on.
Fair Trade coffee unfair to farmers, CIAT says.
Another day, another genome. This time it’s cowpea.
2000 year old food forest in Morocco. Honestly! And guess what? It’s not thriving.
Another video (long). Education of an Urban Farmer.
Education of an ex-pastoralist farmer, Karamojong, Kenya

One Reply to “Nibbles: Markets, Easter Island, Honey, Coffee, Cowpea, Morocco, Urban Ag, Kenya”

I have no clue what agrobiodiversity is but I guess I took a picture of it! LOL! Thanks for the link! :)

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.