Nibbles: Neanderthal, CWR, Bioinformatics, Svalbard, Old Armenian wine, Maple syrup, Plants databases, Bananas in trouble

Neanderthals cooked and ate plants, but did not use toothbrushes.
Andy Jarvis talks up a crop wild relatives storm.
Towards an information infrastructure for the global genebank system. Maybe.
Aussies send seeds to wrong Global Seed Vault.
Oldest winery found in Armenia. Search still ongoing for oldest wino. Maybe in Lebanon?
Oh, to be at the Bigleaf Maple Syrup Festival!
The most important thing to happen in botany in, what, a couple of weeks? Ah, but the backlash is here.
Colbert finally works out why his high school teacher put condoms on bananas. Here’s his informant.

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.