Nibbles: Aguaje, Super pasta, Banana battery, Tomato love, Tomato hate, Microgreens, NUS, Fortuneii, Coffee, Uran agriculture

Today’s new superfruit. This one doesn’t surprise me.
Tomorrow’s super-spaghetti. This one really baffles me.
Today’s new source of bioenergy: bananas. Shocking.
50 ways to love your tomatoes. Turn ‘em to jam, Pam.
One reason to hate tomatoes, for good bad muslims.
Trendy micro greens are more nutritious. Get ‘em young, chum.
“If they are so good, why are they not spreading on their own?” Crops for the Future gives NUS the third degree.
Robert Fortune, pioneer biopirate.
Forget oil, water and phosphorus. Peak coffee is as scary as it gets.
How to save urban agriculture: by the numbers.

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.