Nibbles: Breadfruit, Cryo, Svalbard poem, Mustard, Ancient diets, Hopi seeds, Aztec houses, Invasives

Your regular reminder that breadfruit could be used a lot more.
Your regular reminder that cryo could be used a lot more in conservation.
Your regular reminder that Indigenous knowledge could be used a lot more.
Your regular reminder that the Svalbard Global Seed Vault could be used a lot more.
Your regular reminder that climate change is getting personal.
Your regular reminder that ancient people weren’t stupid. At all.
Your regular reminder that invasive species are a big problem.

One Reply to “Nibbles: Breadfruit, Cryo, Svalbard poem, Mustard, Ancient diets, Hopi seeds, Aztec houses, Invasives”

Svalbard poem: Nice poem, but it says “Foxes pause ghostlike on the permafrost” No they don’t. The soil surface outside the store is not permafrost – it melts every year during summer (and once-upon-a-time the meltwater ran down the entrance tunnel).

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Fresh Nibbles

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.

Published on November 7, 2024