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Nibbles: Nutrition, Expanding corn, Wheat prices, Veg from space, Seed saving film, Gender

Things are slim today, mostly only tangentially related to agricultural biodiversity. But we hate to disappoint…

The ever-influential Lancet has published a series on non-communicable diseases (many of which are associated with dietary diversity). Marion Nestle has the details.
The USDA’s conservation program is fighting a losing battle against high corn prices, and everybody suffers (except corn farmers).
Sell wheat? Prices are high, but forecasts are good.
Vegscape! If you need a “state-of-the-art, satellite-based U.S. crop condition vegetation assessment and monitoring service”.
Now this really is agrobiodiverse: A high definition film on seed saving that needs your support.
This one too: women and bambara groundnut.

Geographic patterns in epigenomic variation. Yeah, but in Arabidopsis.
A global strategy for conservation. Yeah, but for cacao.
That “Diversifying Food and Diets — Using Agricultural Biodiversity to Improve Nutrition and Health” book? You’ll be able to get chapters and case studies from a dedicated website nine months after publication.
Not to be outdone, the Ethiopian Institute of Agriculture Research lets you download “Defining Moments in the Ethiopian Seed System.”
New Agriculturist fillets out some contributions to a recent Economist conference on malnutrition.
The Brassica research community gets together in the UK. Not many people hurt.

Yes, because the world desperately needs a map of “handheld, filled snacks from around the world.”
Paddies and aquaculture go well together. But didn’t we know that already? And wait, synergise is a verb?
Article with interesting-sounding title about the use of IT to monitor wheat diseases has nothing to do with using IT to monitor wheat diseases.
Oh that’s enough for today, I’m just not in the mood. As you might have noticed.
No, wait, I feel better now. Ah, the restorative power of beer and genebanks.
And of chocolate.
Which does not feature among the first three African PGIs.

Bigshots visit CIMMYT, miss opportunity to mention genebank. No, wait…
Bigshot visits IRRI, including genebank.
Yeah but who needs those anyway, you can make your own!
Now the French want their say on quinoa.
Speaking of the French, you think there is any horsemeat in Cornish pasties?
“I grew up with zucchini, but I prefer the flavor and texture of angled luffa.”
Gotta love the fact that there’s a thing called the Rogue Creamery.
Missed the fact that Leafsnap had been named one of the top 10 science apps of 2012.
Germans report on Italians helping Ethiopians. To keep bees. One suspects Ethiopians could teach Italians and Germans a thing or two about keeping bees, but that’s another story.