Nibbles: Mead, Treaty, Zoonoses, Flowery margins, Post-doc, Sacred Groves, Posters, Maize in Africa.

Mead, part 4. You can find 1-3 yourselves.
Plant genetic resources key to food security. The Jakarta Post gets it.
Long, complex post from ILRI on zoonoses; diseases that infect people and animals.
What are all the flowers for? The Provincial Agricultural Chamber of East Flanders seeks answers. h/t PAR.
Wanna do a post-doc on Comprehensive modelling of agro-biodiversity in relation to seed exchange networks?
Sacred groves threatened, by Times of India.
Fabulous botanical posters, many featuring useful species, and all useful information. Of course tomatoes are fruits.
I meant to write in detail about how Untapped crop data from Africa predicts corn peril if temperatures rise, but you know, life intervened.

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.