Nibbles: Cheese history, RethinkX, Cosmopolitan Chicken, Natural capital accounting, Supply chains, Healthy policies, NordGen

Fruit flies facilitated the birth of the hybrid yeast that made cheese possible. Thanks, fruitfly!
Ah, but an upgrade is coming: precision fermentation.
How business can track its effects on biodiversity. Should it want to.
How to make it easier, more profitable and more sustainable to bring healthy foods to market. Someone mash it up with the above?
How to design policies for countries seeking to provide healthy diets. Someone mash it up with the above?
40 years of NordGen. Happy birthday! Then someone mash it up with the above…
Celebrating poultry diversity through art. No need for mashing, just celebrate the weirdness.

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.