Nibbles: Book, Watermelon, Pests & Diseases, Lime juice disinfectant, Seed laws, Bibliography

I’ve already pre-ordered Darwinian Agriculture, and now I can get a head start by downloading Chapter 1 for free.
Oxfam gives Vietnamese new watermelon seeds to combat climate change. But what kind of seeds?
Relive yesterday’s webinar on Managing pests and disease under climate change: What do we need to learn?
Speaking of which, a reminder of CABI’s New Pest & Disease Records.
New use for lime juice: disinfecting drinking water.
Fermentation Nation feat. my favorite microorganisms.
Mexico toys with new plant variety protection law, NGOs worried.
Finally, overworked person updates agrobiodiversity group on Mendeley.

One Reply to “Nibbles: Book, Watermelon, Pests & Diseases, Lime juice disinfectant, Seed laws, Bibliography”

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.