Nibbles: Women, Diplomats, Murderers, Speculators, Brainiacs, Participators, Cartographers, Foodographers, Native American agrobiodiversity

Mo’ women power, mo’ better food security. ILRI leads the pack of CGIAR centres, but there’s loads of stuff elsewhere.
British diplomat ponders the value of biodiversity.
Less than a human life, at least in some parts of Brazil.
Speaking (cynically) of values and prices, informed speculation on speculators is at hand.
Berries make you brainy; so I guess that reporter hasn’t eaten any lately.
You too can determine future-oriented research pathways for food security in East Africa, and no need to pig out on berries.
A kinda sorta interactive map of European agricultural biodiversity. Is it sustainable?
That map may need a special section for Florence, if one person’s photographic Florentine feast is anything to go by.
If there were a similar map for the US, it would probably include this kind of thing from the Cherokee.

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.