Nibbles: Potato diversity sites, Potato market, Smallholders and markets, CIP genebank, African potato meet, Japanese fries & eels, Micronutrients, Pickling book

Setting up a network of high potato diversity sites for in situ conservation. It has a Facebook page, so “Like” it.
Some of that diversity will no doubt find its way to Lima’s markets.
If not, Leaping and Learning will tell you how. And why.
There’s a lot of diversity in genebanks too, of course. And thank goodness for that!
Potatoes are important in Africa too.
And Japan. But do they go with eels?
What are potatoes like for micronutrients? Probably better than you think. But could be better?
If not, you can always pickle them. Can’t you?

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.