Nibbles: Vigna radiata, Brit foods, Botany power, Niche models, Early ag, Fortification, Chicago plants, De-extinction, Kew aroids, Fish farming fail

WorldVeg fights for the right of Pakistanis to grow mungbean.
Philosopher thinks the English should fight for einkorn. Oh, and stilton.
Botanist fights for botany.
You gotta fight those species distribution models into submission. They don’t come quietly.
Early farmers made love, not war. Or at least made cultic phallic symbols.
Indians avoid Golden Rice fight by fortifying their own.
Chicago fights to save its plants.
You can’t fight extinction. I mean, once it’s happened.
Aroids putting up a good fight with showier plants at Kew.
Aquaculture in a fight for its life as disease looms.

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.