Nibbles: Food supplies, Food fotos, Forest foods, Diverse foods, Caribbean cassava, Wild foods, Expo 2015, Gates & SDGs, Nanoparticles

What the World Eats: The Infographic.
What the World Eats: The Photo Competition.
What the World Doesn’t Eat: Forest Foods.
What the World Should Eat More Of: The Presentation.
What Grenada Eats: Cassava
What Christopher McCandless Should Not Have Eaten: Not ODAP After All?
Gulf states big stars in Milan. So that’s all right then.
Gates Foundation really doesn’t like the SDGs.
Boffins find promiscuous Phytophthora killer. Breeders surrender.

One Reply to “Nibbles: Food supplies, Food fotos, Forest foods, Diverse foods, Caribbean cassava, Wild foods, Expo 2015, Gates & SDGs, Nanoparticles”

The article about Christopher McCandless is really interesting :). I didn’t know Krakauer was trying to solve the mistery (didn’t even know he liked science)

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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