Nibbles: GenResBridge, Food for All, CIAT genebank, Seed for the Future, Vavilov book, Seeing Pastoralism, S Sudan floods, Sustainable diets, Elon Musk, CePaCT, NZ genebank, Wild potato, Peyote

Europe gets a genetic resources strategy at last. Rejoice.
Book on how international organizations could, should, would transform agriculture.
Meanwhile, in Cali…
BBVA and El Celler de Can Roca collaborate on forgotten foods documentary, Seeds for the Future.
A novel about Vavilov? Well, why not.
Exhibition on pastoralism.
Visual essay on floods in South Sudan.
Why not throw money at food security though? I mean, just see above, right?
Beyond the EAT-Lancet diet. S. Sudan unavailable for comment.
The SPC genebank curator waxes lyrical.
Not far away, New Zealand cryopreserves some of its native plants.
The latest on the Four Corners potato. I hope it’s in cryo…
…and that it doesn’t go the way of the peyote.

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.