Nibbles: Conference, Debate, Review, Radio, Conserve, Film, Label, Threats, Subsidies, Academics, Backyard Breeder

The 2nd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change “Hunger for Action” (Hanoi, Vietnam).
Barder and Kinder Debate London Health Summit and Food Security Policy, so we don’t have to!
A review of a review of restoration ecology for ecosystem services. Ag?
The Seed Underground: listen to a radio interview with US author Janisse Ray. Ag!
Or, if that fails to excite, listen to Save the axolotl! Um, sure, but why? and tell us whether there’s any ag in that.
There’s definitely ag in More than Honey, a new documentary movie.
FDA slaps down misleading claims of fortification (in chocolate syrup)
Cassava mosaic and banana bacterial wilt add to the food security woes of DR Congo.
Rice growers get all the goodies, complain Sri Lankan vegetable growers.
Ivorian agricultural scientists to open access to their research results.
A backyard breeder documents his search for a better bean.

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.