Nibbles: Water buffalo, Beans, Rhizowen, Fisheries, Frankincence, Gender and gender, US CWR, Cropland, Forests and food security

Today’s genome of passing interest, the water buffalo, less than two years after it was promised.
Saluting the true amateurs, on bean and tuberous diversity.
Unconsidered benefits of capture fisheries — except for the captured fish, I suppose.
Eleven months early, AoBblog links to a new paper on how to best to tap frankincense.
Not to be outdone, Modern Farmer relates how maple syrup could be industrialised as a row crop. H/t Metafilter.
An e-learning course on Gender in Agriculture.
Which is unlikely to please Ed Carr, author of Gender and adaptation: Time to do it differently.
US inventories its crop wild relatives.
Demand for cropland will increase.
Which is bad for forests, which are good for food security, but not as much as they could be.

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.