Nibbles: Mustard, Sugar, Cassowary, Citrus, Beans

Cologne has a mustard museum and I want to visit it.
Lecture on the role of sugar in supporting slavery and capitalism. Where is the sugar museum?Ah here it is.
The cassowary may have been domesticated in New Guinea ten thousand years ago (with sugarcane?). Deserves a museum.
Speaking of domestication, here is how that of citrus happened. There’s actually a number of different citrus museums out there.
Nice PhD opportunity Sweden studying beans in Rwanda. There are museums in both places, I’m pretty sure.

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.