Nibbles: Pharaonic gardens, Ironic bananas, Workshopped access, Seed Swap, Forgotten foods

See Gardens of the Pharaohs at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities from 27 April to 2 September.
Iron-deficiency anaemia? Engineer a banana!
Eldis shares details of a workshop on access and benefit sharing under the International Seed Treaty.
A hugely successful Seedy Sunday in Amsterdam. Call the Seed Police!
The BBC remembers Forgotten Foods. No, not NUS.

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.