Nibbles: Conservation course history, Language and DNA, Entomophagy blog, IPBES help, Phenomics methods database, Sustainable Nestlé, Got other milk?, NCYC

University of Birmingham conservation course alumnus/a? This one’s for you.
Phonemes follow human genomes. Kinda. No word on crop and livestock genomes. Yet.
A whole blog on eating insects.
Interesting: “Each IPBES assessment must include reference citations to indigenous knowledge, and every review panel must include experts in this.”
Curated list of methods in Plant Phenotyping and Phenomics.
Nestlé’s sustainable agriculture guy visits CIAT, plants coconut, talks supply chains.
Camelcino, anyone?
UK yeast genebank reaches totally arbitrary milestone.

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.