Nibbles: CATIE coffee, Cajanus Down Under, Coloured wheat, Rice walk, AnGR in Uganda, Coconut sequestration, Private sector, Hawaiian taro, Going wild sustainably, DATAR, Old yeast, Pharaonic beer, Charley Rick, Liberate Diversity, Cost benefit, Catastrophe now

The CATIE coffee collection gets a really close look.
Pigeonpeas for Australia.
Coloured wheat for India.
Also in India, a rice institute opens its doors.
A livestock genebank for Uganda.
The coconut for the Caribbean.
Why crop-based businesses should pay for crop conservation. Holding my breath…
Hawaiians reclaim taro. Breathing again…
How to use wild species sustainably.
Diversity Assessment Tool for Agrobiodiversity and Resilience. Yeah, what we need is more software.
16th century beer. From Quito, the first city to brew beer in South America.
Egyptians: I see that and raise you about 6 thousand years.
You too can drink Leonardo’s wine. Wonder if he liked beer.
Exploring for wild tomatoes.
Liberating diversity.
Agricultural R&D is in the top 3 value-for-money development interventions. Just saying…
Seconded: “Multiplying the budget of CGIAR, the world’s largest global agricultural innovation network, would be a good start. And, in a time of great disruptions, we ought to prioritize Sustainable Development Goal 2.4, implementing resilient agricultural practices, with a greater focus on smallholder farmers in developing countries.” And 2.5!!!

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.