Nibbles: Wine, Ass, Maps, Mauka, Pest management, Photos

Mathilda on domestication of the vine and donkey.
New software for species mapping is out: Croziat.
Another day, another tuber.
Using Diversity as a Pest Management Tool. There’s a thought.
Pix of West African plants, including cultivated, with lots of assorted link goodness.

One Reply to “Nibbles: Wine, Ass, Maps, Mauka, Pest management, Photos”

Yes, there’s a thought indeed and of course farmers have been thinking about how on farm diversity contributes to pest and disease management for a long time. David Thurston’s publication on the sustainable disease management practices in traditional farming practices provides an excellent historical overview.

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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