Nibbles: Hunger, Food surplus, Bananas not killing crocs, Overpopulation matters, NUS 2013, Berry go Round, Call for articles, Wild cabbage

How to solve world hunger, eat a new report.
Or send them the UK’s surplus oats and wheat.
Our friend Anne Vezina lets the reptiles of the press have it right between the eyes: Crocs and banana plantations: What the media missed.
And Erik Hammar is peeved about a New York Times op-ed pooh poohing the problem of overpopulation.
Glad we’re not too late to point you to the write-up of the 1st day of the NUS 2013 conference. More to come?
There’s a new Berry go Round botany blog carnival up, with nothing of agricultural interest. I guess we missed the call for content. Again.
Farming Matters wants your articles on agricultural biodiversity.
In a cabbage taste test, wild is best.

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.