Nibbles: African pollinators, Wild wheat, Brazilian meet, Bamboo meet, Old seeds, Rice diversity, 5282, Frozen grapes

Call for proposals on African pollinator informatics.
The Linnean Society puts “Wheat Taxonomy: the legacy of John Percival” online. Heroes all.
The Brazilian genetic resources congress gets a Facebook page.
There’s also a bamboo and rattan congress coming up.
A time capsule is dug up in Canada, and it’s got seeds!
Seeking rice SNPs? Use snp-seek.
What links the Dutch Easy India Company with a measles outbreak in the US? The answer will probably not surprise you.
We really need some new wine grape cultivars. I mean REALLY new.

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.