World’s street food picked over

Hungry? Tuck into street food in Tokyo and Singapore. Has anyone ever done a study of the role of street food in the conservation of agrobiodiversity?

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Singapore has the best street food I’ve ever come across. Probably also the most agrobiodiverse (although that seems an easier category to win).

Hi Luigi

I am researching this very topic. A good place to start might be this.

Send me a message if you want to discuss more paulrchalmers@gmail.com

Luigi says:

October 18, 2010 at 1:17 pm

Great to know, thanks! Would you like to do a blog post for us describing your work?

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Fresh Nibbles

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.

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