Nibbles: “Millets”, GLF, Agrobiodiversity & resilience, Nepali earthquake, Seed systems, Super beans in Uganda, Cherokee seeds, Potato Park, Italian cook, Ancient turkeys, Linnaean globalization, Wild rice genomes

I really don’t like the way a bunch of very different cereals are lumped together as “millets,” but anyway.
Mongabay optimistic about climate-smart agriculture after Global Landscape Forum.
I guess it must be the resilience.
Rebuilding Nepali seed systems after the earthquake. See what I mean?
And here’s a primer on innovative seed systems work from ICRISAT.
Beans for refugees. Seeds systems at work.
Cherokee nation knows what to do to get seeds out there.
So does the Parque de la Papa, for that matter.
Morocco has truffles? Yep.
Ancient turkeys were pets, not food.
Linnaeus was a globalist. Not his fault, though.
Australian gene-jockey says that Australian wild rice genome could make it easier to grow rice in Australia. Linnaeus, where are you?

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.