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Our Hungry Planet: Agriculture, People and Food Security. Free online course from University of Reading.
What if people in country X ate the same diet as people in country Y?
The Man wants to fingerprint your stash.
Or maybe fragrantly hopped beer is your poison?
A new one on me: Conservatoire des Collections Végétales Spécialisées (CCVS).
All politics is local. All control of forestry enterprises ought to be.
Victoria takes to the poppy. Afghanistan unavailable for comment.
The small farmers of Paraguay holding back the flood of soy. Or trying to.
The promise — and curse — of CCN 51. And some context on the whole peak chocolate thing.
Wait, some people think Bhut Jolokia is a cool name?
The grapevine has gone viral. Millions of years ago.
Global Panel of Wise Agricultural People says to biofortify your crops.

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.