Nibbles: Retiring Ellis, Teff patent, Rice in Bangladesh, Indian wild wheat, Livestock wild relatives, Bambara groundnut, Han diversity, Danone cultures, Drumming, IPBES, World Bee Day, Agroforestry

Dave Ellis retires, world celebrates. Wait, that came out wrong…
The Dutch teff patent saga.
Saving rice diversity in Bangladesh.
Conserving and using wild wheat in India.
Livestock have wild relatives too.
It’s the “minor” crops, stupid.
The most expensive pistachios in the world.
Human diversity and domestication in E Asia, summarized in a cool map.
Open yoghurt.
The connection between Nigerian music and watermelons. Yes, there is one.
Summarizing reaction to IPBES.
Happy World Bee Day.
Oh, and I almost forgot, follow the livestream of the World Congress on Agroforestry.

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.