Nibbles: Agrobiodiversity Index, PPB, Heirloom rice, CATIE genebank, Faberge potato, Val @CePaCT, Nigerian food, Ethnobotanical book, Hope Jahren quote

Bioversity DG lobbies for the Agrobiodiversity Index.
One of her staff lobbies for participatory plant breeding. And he’s not the only one.
Maybe they could tackle Indian rice next?
Protecting cacao at CATIE.
Faberge had a potato, of all things, and it’s a beaut.
Celebrating Valerie Tuia, until recently genebank manager at SPC. Faberge taro, anyone?
The Nigeria food database includes taro, but only leaves.
The Digital atlas of traditional agricultural practices and food processing weighs 10kg, but seems a stone-cold Faberge-level masterpiece. Not sure if it has much on taro, though.
“Every replete tree was first a seed that waited.”