Nibbles: Zimbabwe breeder, Indian genebank, Zambian genebank, Chinese genebank, Pakistan & Uzbekistan, Manchester planting

Sorghum and millet breeder honoured in Zimbabwe. Always good to see.
Germplasm evaluation efforts of Indian national genebank make it into the mainstream financial press. Also very good to see.
Zambian national genebank does some much-needed safety duplication. More good news.
Possibly good news, hard to say: Russian news agency on what seems to be a new wild rice genebank in China.
Always good news to see two countries agree to collaborate on genetic resources.
Manchester viaduct gets a greenlift. Good to see it, despite no genebanks being involved.

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.