Nibbles: Tilapia pros & cons, Cotton history, Potato diversity, Mars sustainability, Forest conservation, Homegardens, Village forests, 14th century gardening, American chestnut, Soil barcoding, Non-cow milk, Conserving Spanish grapes, Biodiversity & poverty

The truth about tilapia. Well, according to Fox News, anyway.
“..the greatest industry that ever had or could by possibility have ever existed in any age or country.” Go on, guess. No, not tilapia aquaculture, though it has time.
Modern Farmer gives us its hipster take on the potato. And bows out?
Mars unleashes its sustainability policies.
The Forest Stewardship Council gives examples of community-based conservation success stories.
Homegardens for nutrition. (No, no pre-cooked bean products here).
Ok, put the two previous together and you get this: Sumatran village forests.
Bet those villagers don’t need a gardening manual, unlike Henry VIII of England.
The American chestnut continues its comeback. Manual probably available.
After barcoding: metabarcoding.
Symposium on non-cow milk. Sounds like fun.
“With more diversity, the more tools we have to fight against problems like climate change.” Yes, even with wine grapes.
Biodiversity goods and bads: the role of biodiversity in poverty alleviation.

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.