Nibbles: CIAT genebank, Kew impacts, Zambian poachers, Sustainable cows, CO2 fertilization, Trees on the radio, Prosecco shortage, Chamomile

CIAT 2014 annual report highlights role of genebank in its impact pathways.
Kew post for International Day for Biological Diversity does something similar.
Zambian poachers beat swords into ploughshares, plant peanuts.
Turns out meat is not murder.
Higher carbon dioxide can’t make up for other stuff.
Great BBC Radio 4 series on The Meaning of Trees.
Saving the Jesuit pear tree. Maybe they should put this on the radio.
I’m not sure it would be so bad if prosecco ran out.
Because the genomes of all of the components of beer have now been sequenced, so we’re safe.
Have a a nice cup of chamomile instead.

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.