Nibbles: GIPB, NPGS, Dogs for conservation, Harare gardens, Goat milk value added, Equator Prize, Humanitarian relief, Peruvian maize, Pseudo-cereals, Katine, Vavilov goes web 2.0, Travel, Haggis ban, African road datasets, Dyes, Adaptation pix, Baltic, AnGR, Jatropha

GIPB revamps its website. Knowledge Resource Centre is ver. 4.0, no less.
US National Plant Germplasm System explained to Canadians. Why? They have their own!
Armadillo sniffing dogs.
More urban farming in Zimbabwe.
Interesting stuff you can make with goat milk.
Who do you like for Equator Prize 2010? Avatar? No, wait, that’s something else. Well, actually…
Nutrition for humanitarian workers.
Large-eared white maize is ‘cultural heritage’ of Peru. So that’s all good then.
Minor cereals and a gluten-free diet.
Wanna talk to Katine? Ask about what the project is doing with/about agrobiodiversity, of course!
Nikolay tweets!
Agricultural and other assorted musings along the Mekong. Can’t help thinking that if you somehow aggregated all similar observations and geo-referenced them you’d come up with a pretty interesting picture of agriculture worldwide.
A blow for Scottish agrobiodiversity and cuisine.
Digitizing Africa’s roads.
Natural dyes 101.
IUCN photos of climate change adaptation. Includes agriculture! Well, sort of.
Nordic agricultural scientists to discuss climate change adaptation. Grow bananas?
Breeding Strategies for Sustainable Management of Animal Genetic Resources from FAO. Via.
ATREE questions Jatropha.

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.