Nibbles: Canadian genebank, Indian women farmers, Coconut videos, Willow catalog, Crop models & CC, Next GR, Caviar of Cantaloupes, Wild Bactrian, Dog history, Top 100 development questions

Video of the Canadian genebank.
First video in series on Indian women farmers: Bowing to No One, by Sarah Khan.
Whole bunch of coconut videos. See what I did there?
Good news for cricketers: willow variety catalog out.
The skinny of what crop models say about the effects of climate change. Spoiler alert: it ain’t good.
The latest call for a new Green Revolution.
Safe to say cantaloupes won’t feature much in that, which is a pity.
Maybe some other weird plants will, though.
Wild camels are pretty tough. And since we’re on the subject, what’s a heritage animal breed?
Wait, they solved dog domestication?
Top 100 development research questions for our SDG world, including ten on food security and agriculture.

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.