Food Policy has a special issue out on Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia. There’s my weekend gone. And yours, I suspect. Let’s try something. If you find any references to the role of crop diversity in general or genebanks in particular in the seven papers included, stick it in the comments below, or on the Genebank Platform Facebook page if you prefer. I’ll try to pull it all together when I have a chance. Let’s do this.
Glover and Poole, Table 1 presents options to strengthen agriculture-nutrition linkages. In the Table, 9/11 options involve agrobiodiversity.
Probably this sentence summarizes the message of this paper best. “Recognising that multiple stakeholders have degrees and kinds of agency in the reconfiguration of socio-technical systems calls for a dose of humility on the part of planners and system builders, especially a recognition that the potential achievement of beneficial outcomes must involve contributions from multiple actors, rather than masterful direction by an omniscient, masterful instigator and controller of change.”