Nibbles: Training materials double, Tree platform double, Wild rabbit, Economic value

Crawford Fund training materials for high schools include discussion of genebanks.
And that would go quite well with this graphic novel on natural selection in Mimulus from Health in Our Hands.
There’s a Global Tree Knowledge Platform from ICRAF…
…which could probably be usefully mashed up with the restoration platform Restor.
The Sumatran striped rabbit makes a rare appearance. On Facebook.
The World Bank makes the economic case for all of the above. Well, maybe except the Sumatran rabbit.

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.