Nibbles: CWR, Vavilov, Russian wheat, Spinifex, Copal, Pacific veggies, ITPGRFA, GHUs, Brewing, Sustainable meat, Livestock domestication

FoodTank does crop wild relatives.
“The inveterate collector who understand the poetics of diversity had left behind a new plant unknown to science.”
That “inveterate collector” would probably approve of this.
A VERY tasty grass.
Chew on that spinifex while burning this stuff for the full botanical multi-sensory experience..
Pacific people told to cultivate their gardens for health and nutrition. And climate change adaptation.
Progress on Farmers’ Rights. Incremental, but still.
The unsung heroes of germplasm distribution get together.
Reviving the fortunes of NY hops through fancy breeding.
Too much plant protein is going to animals, so let’s give them insects instead.
Because animals are bad for equality anyway.

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.