Nibbles: Macron magic, UK Strategic Priorities Fund, Macadamia, Tepary, Nordic spuds, Diversification, Carolina rice, Couscous, Wild tobacco, Yeast diversity, Da 5 Foods

France pushes for agricultural development. Money to follow mouth?
Meanwhile, Britain puts its money into its own food systems.
The macadamia is not diverse enough. Who’d have thought it.
Couscous gets protected. Phew, ’cause it’s right on the verge of extinction, isn’t it.
I hope tepary beans don’t become the next macadamia.
Reviving old potatoes the Nordic way.
Malaysia told to look beyond oil palm. To tepary and macadamia, maybe?
Speaking of diversification, how about Laotian rice in Appalachia?
Chasing the wild tobacco. See what I did there?
Yeast has been domesticated by bakers into two genetic groups: industrial and artisanal sourdough.
A history of the world in entirely the wrong 5 foods.

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.