Nibbles: Give a man a chicken, Pollinator selection, Bananapocalypse redux, Red kiwi, ICARDA genebank, Dark comms, Food design, Traditional diets, Revitalizing villages, Peruvian diversity, Moving botany

Which should come first, the chicken or the cash? MIL unavailable for comment.
Pollinators are mini plant breeders.
Save the Cavendish! No, wait…
There’s a red kiwi coming. Eventually. No, not left-wing New Zealanders.
ICARDA decentralizes its genebank. But we knew that.
GFAR webinars on communicating research.
Designing food. What could possibly go wrong?
Decolonize it instead.
Ecotourism in Portugal. No word on whether decolonized food involved.
Kickstarter on documenting food crops in Peru, decolonized or not.
Tracing the colonization and (hopefully) decolonization of economic botany products. Fascinating idea.

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.