Nibbles: Lumnezia, Wild apples, Pistachio, Coconut conservation, Tenant farming, Wild cow, Why genotype, Chicken controversy, Blueberry blues

The ever-dependable Roads & Kingdoms on a very special Swiss cheese.
The ever-dependable Mongabay on Kyrgyz apple forests.
The ever-dependable Simran Sethi on how the California pistachio industry got it’s start.
The ever-dependable Bioversity with a global strategy for the conservation of coconut genetic diversity.
The ever-dependable Twitter…no wait. Thread on why farmers with a bigger share in their output produce more.
A cow wild relative in Myanmar.
Carolina Sansaloni of CIMMYT on genotyping genebank collections.
Are chickens “rescuing mute, passive non-Western women”?
Blueberries are in all kinds of trouble.

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.