Nibbles: Dog & bone, Giant maize, Edible Archive, Myanmar diversification, Colombian community seedbank, Sorghum grande, Coconut exhibit, Chinese ag history, African domestication, Japanese citrus, RivieraLigure DOP, Cactus candy, Hazelnut resistance, American crop rethinks, Public sector engagement

Nice synthesis of dog (and chicken) domestication.
Saving the Jala maize landrace in Mexico.
Saving lots of rice landraces in India by eating them.
Myanmar does not live by rice alone. And neither does India.
Saving a whole bunch of stuff in Colombia.
Saving a sorghum wild relative in Australia.
How coconuts can help museums decolonize.
Maybe agricultural development needs to decolonize too. Discuss.
Africa’s Fertile Crescent is the Niger River Basin. Nice, but we saw that coming first.
Citrus is big in Japan.
Olive oil is big in Liguria.
The visnaga cactus was big in the US Southwest once. As an ingredient in candy, of all things.
Breeding filberts in the US.
Tomato 2.0.
And a bunch of other crops American farmers and breeders are having to adapt to climate change.
And not just that, they have to deliver better nutrition too.
Eat what you want, sure. But think what that means for climate change.
Principles for GAIN engaging with the private sector (in all its diversity) on nutrition. Could be applied to engagement on climate change, I suppose, and crop diversity conservation for that matter. My question, though, is: runaway train, or Titanic?

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.