Nibbles: Encomium to Bioversity, PGR economics, Europe newsletter, Mapping urban veggies, Piper, Fruit breeding

On farm conservation; Bioversity is really good at it. (And I sometimes make a linking mistake; mea maxima culpa.)
Economics of plant genetic resource management for adaptation to climate change. What’s the bottom line? No idea.
Something else Bioversity is really good at: newsletters.
Using GIS to help communities map vegetable production and marketing in Bangkok. I like the acronym: V-GIS.
The variety of non-chile peppers.
Older fruits better. Quentin Crisp unavailable for comment.

One Reply to “Nibbles: Encomium to Bioversity, PGR economics, Europe newsletter, Mapping urban veggies, Piper, Fruit breeding”

On farm conservation? I thought farmers were good at that, not institutions.

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.