Nibbles: British foods, NBPGR wheat, CIMMYT wheat, Innovation, Ghana cowpea, Nordic grog, Medicinal purposes, Heirloom chocolate, Grünewoche, Dog genomics, Berry go Round, Broad beans, Ag landscapes, Tea and CC

Google Map of British protected food names. Where’s fish and chips? Or the cream tea. Japan next?
Indian genebank in the record books for characterizing wheat.
And with no help from CIMMYT!
Getting those damn smallholders to innovate already.
Ghana gets a new cowpea to innovate with. Well, almost.
And there I was thinking smallholders had been innovating for thousands of years. Even in the frozen north. Winter may be coming, but we’ve got grog. Which you know is good for you.
As is chocolate, so go ahead and submit your heirloom cacao beans for evaluation. But don’t be tempted to cheat. We’ll know if you are.
Oh damn, it’s Green Week.
The story behind the methods used in a recent paper on dog diversity. Wonkish.
We seem to have slipped off the Berry Go Round treadmill, which means we missed some gorgeous photos of broad beans.
And another belated treat: UNESCO’s round up of World Heritage agricultural landscapes.
…one of which is not tea in China, but maybe it should be, before it’s too late.

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.