Nibbles: No dam, Pollination video, Study the Commons, Cashew genebank, Quebecois varieties, Poultry, Prehistoric globalisation, Options for Southeast Asia, Inforgraphic, Viking beer

I’ve long thought that getting rid of the Aswan High Dam would be the best way Egypt could improve its food security.
New video from Biofortified, how to pollinate carrots and beets.
Hey Lawyers; time to study the commons! Including genetic resources? h/t capri.
Today’s gene banks will save the world story is about cashews.
Today’s rich world saving heritage varieties story is from Quebec.
Today’s old stories given new legs story is about paying farmers for ecosystem services.
Wired magazine discovers pastured poultry. Can the rest of the world be far behind?
Proposal for a conference session on prehistoric globalisation of food. I’d be there if I could.
And more from the Archaeobotanist, another journal special issue on Near Eastern domestication.
CCAFS highlights (and links to) ICRAF report on climate change options for Southeast Asian Farmers
Danforth Center depicts evolution of plant science, devaluing the word inforgraphic [sic] beyond repair.
Viking beer. Sköl, or something.

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.