Nibbles: Food future, Bean breeding 101, Yield gaps, Mitigation strategies, Sparing vs sharing, Diverse diets, Open seeds, Fake seeds, Florida citrus threat, Hot chicks, Nutrition nuggets

Food? We don’t need no stinking food.
Bean breeder begs to differ.
Where we could do with more food.
Nobody’s talking about mitigation any more. Oh yes they are.
Land shparing is the answer.
ICRAF decides to gather evidence for the benefits of agroforestry for nutrition.
More on those open source seeds. Which I hope nobody will counterfeit.
Florida needs new grapefruits, whether open source or not.
Naked neck chickens look weird, but they may be really heat resistant, so get over it. Ghana has.
Canadian grad students summarize nutrition research in a pithy sentence. Sound familiar?

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.