Nibbles: Veggies, Livestock, Micronutrients, Scurvy, Hemp

Grow what the market wants, African veggie growers told.
Develop the markets for what you grow, Vietnamese farmers told.
You need diverse animal breeds to graze on diverse landscapes shock.
Why, then, are pastoralists abandoning pastoralism?
The Micronutrient Forum is being revived with a gabfest in Addis, 2-6 June. Be still my beating heart.
They’re obviously not going to be too worried about scurvy.
It’s cannabis, Jim, but not as we know it. Hemp Is Coming Back As A Farm Crop. Oh yeah it is.
Whatever, I just hope the seed goes to Svalbard.

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.