Nibbles: Food sovereignty, Calories, Fortilizers, Barley, Climate changed coconuts, Global hunger index, Halloween food, World Food Day

Native tribes in the US want more food sovereignty.
People underreport the calories they consume shock. Research sponsored by Coke not a shock.
For nutritionally fortified food, fortify the fertilizers first.
German scientists working round to clock to decipher barley DNA and save Oktoberfest from climate-induced drought.
Climate change, however, is a double-edged sword for coconuts in Guyana.
2013 Global Hunger Index says world hunger remains “serious”.
Is all that scary enough to put you off your food?
Relax, it’s World Food Day, everything’s gonna be alright.

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.