Nibbles: Danone, Street food, Makutano Junction, Canberra, Africa, Markets, Veggies

Let them eat yoghurt. Danone targets the poor. h/t Tom
Eating Mexico City, one street at a time. Bookmarked.
It’s The Archers, Jim, but not as we know it. Soaps spread (agro)innovation.
The Crawford Fund Conference does biodiversity (in Australia)
New Agriculturist reports on a discussion of development in Africa. Is anybody listening?
Food markets freed! A little. In one US state.
Local leafy greens all the rage in Kenya. Yeah, yeah. No but seriously, one of the great changes in the past 10 years, and a major agrobiodiversity success story.

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.