Nibbles: Hunger foods, Pollinators, Sacred Seeds, Neglected species, Grasses, Yields, Hawaiian History

Mining Mungo Park for info about famine foods. Bamboo seeds and, perhaps, baobab pods.
The big prerequisite for EU funding is a good acronym. STEP — status and trends of European pollinators — gets the go ahead.
Sacred Seeds project at Missouri Botanical Garden announces new partners in India.
New Bioversity project to extend importance of work on neglected species in India, Nepal and Bolivia.
How to manage diverse grasses.
More on climate change and maize yields. “[I]f anything heat tolerance is declining.”
Ancient agriculture in Hawaii.

One Reply to “Nibbles: Hunger foods, Pollinators, Sacred Seeds, Neglected species, Grasses, Yields, Hawaiian History”

It would be great to get a mention here. Based out of Calgary, we’re a buy, sell, swap community for non-patented open-pollinated seeds. The site is pay-what-you-can.

Thanks,

Anna-Monique

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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.

Published on November 7, 2024