Nibbles: Eat this tomato, Access to Seeds Index, Tongan coconuts, Grounding the groundnut, Traditional Spain, Genebanks in China and Nigeria, Tree conservation, Sorghum & millet breeding, Iraqi ag, Genebank presentations

Jeremy gets into tomato domestication and diversity on his podcast.
The 2021 Access to Seeds Index Insights Report is out, and includes tomatoes.
What is the most famous place for coconut varieties?
A new book attempts to decolonize the peanut.
Blood and water in Spain.
A tale of two genebanks: China and Nigeria. Maybe the African Union can help? If not, maybe China might.
Africa needs help with tree planting too. Maybe follow Italy’s example?
Though maybe sorghum and millet will be ok.
Send them to Iraqi farmers?
Presentations on seed conservation and use in genebanks.

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.