Nibbles: Gardens, Heirloom tomatoes, Maple beetles, Nepali citrus, Guyana adaptation, Indian policy, GMOS, Apple festivals

Nourishing the Planet featured in Madison paper. Fame at last.
Tomato Party!
What, no more maple syrup? Something Must Be Done!
Nepal gets a citrus genebank.
Guyanese women farmers switch to coconuts (and other things) to cope with flooding.
Indian farmers demand another Green Revolution.
Uh-oh. “GMO corn falls prey to bugs it was supposed to thwart“.
First news of apple festivals, in Vancouver, CA.

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.