Nibbles: Bees, Oysters, Herbals, Svalbard

US honeybees really in trouble.
Europeans also worried.
Chesapeake oyster, on the other hand, are recovering.
Series of posts on old herbals.
Q&A on Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

3 Replies to “Nibbles: Bees, Oysters, Herbals, Svalbard”

The Q&A on Svalbard. The first sentence is factually wrong: why should I believe the rest?

Cary says:

May 16, 2015 at 1:26 pm

It was the 90s (though I attended in the 70s). Big deal, David.

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Thanks Cary: I’d seen the same mistake before elsewhere. Not your fault, but journalists should be pulled up for cribbing and cut-and-pasting incorrect information.

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Fresh Nibbles

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.

Published on November 7, 2024