Nibbles: Kenya forests, Australian grasses, Jackfruit processing, Turin fruit museum

Safeguarding Kenya’s forests the local way.
The latest from the Dark Emu guy. Is this how Australian Aborigines farmed?
Adding value to jackfruit in India.
No jackfruit in this astonishing collection of fruit diversity in wax, alas.

3 Replies to “Nibbles: Kenya forests, Australian grasses, Jackfruit processing, Turin fruit museum”

Dark Emu: Anyone know what the grass is? It seems to have very `sticky’ awns (and large seed??) just like our first three domesticated cereals. I suspect it can bury its own seed and has gone crazy this year after the bush-fires killed species that can’t bury seed.

Pingback: More on making bread Down Under – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

Pingback: More on making bread Down Under – AllIn.Africa

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Fresh Nibbles

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.

Published on November 7, 2024