Nibbles: CIAT job, Rice revolution, Pomegranate genebank, Spiderplant, Floating heritage, Lager origin, Amaro history, Golden Rice et al.

CIAT genebank looking for a leader.
IRRI soon-to-be-former (Thanks, Mike) DG looking for a new Green Revolution.
Looking for pomegranates? Look no further.
Cleome looking for markets. With genomics.
Looking to the floating gardens of Bangladesh for answers.
Looking for the origin of lager yeasts. And finding two of them.
Looking to understand amaro.
A good look at biofortification.

One Reply to “Nibbles: CIAT job, Rice revolution, Pomegranate genebank, Spiderplant, Floating heritage, Lager origin, Amaro history, Golden Rice et al.”

Luigi – quick correction. Bob Zeigler is still DG at IRRI. He steps down in mid-December when Matthew Morell will take over. That’s according to the press release for the BoT Chair, Prof. E. Roman.

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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