Nibbles: Community seed bank, Seed system video, MGIS, Svalbard, Mainstreaming NUS

Indigenous communities can have genebanks too.
That would make them part of the informal seed system.
Meanwhile, in the formal sector, the banana international genebank’s information system gets a graphical upgrade.
And the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, as formal as they come, gets an exhibition centre.
Orphan crops are called orphan because they are in general better served by the informal than the formal seed system.

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.