Nibbles

Nibbles: American single malt, Gauguin’s coconut, World Seed Congress, Red gold, Kunming

Will American single malt whiskey be a thing? Depends on the American barley.
Is the fruit in Paul Gauguin’s Eü haere ia oe (Woman Holding a Fruit) a coconut? Have your say.
Will the World Seed Congress sow a brilliant future? We shall see.
Is the oil palm over in West Africa? Depends.
Where are we with that post-2020 biodiversity deal? Nowhere much yet.

More on how Future Seeds fits into the global system of genebanks. And more still.
You can immerse yourself in the Irish Seed Savers genebank.
Do you want chips with your tree genebank?
There’s a sort of cherry blossom genebank in the Smithsonian Gardens.
The Economist fails to mention genebanks in its piece on how to save coffee from climate change. Here’s an EU project that’s using coffee diversity for adaptation.
Jeremy’s latest newsletter looks at everything from the denazification of cattle to yams. But not genebanks. Subscribe anyway!

Prof. Bhaskar Vira on why we should look beyond the staples, and even beyond agriculture, for sustainable food and nutrition security.
He means things like burití I guess.
And achacha, a plantation of which you can now visit in Australia, of all places.
And anything else that is a “potential as sources of functional and nutritious ingredients that could replace, complement or aid in reformulating the existing food products or developing new ones”? Well, maybe…

CIAT’s new genebank is a real looker.
Rome’s new cooking museum sounds like fun.
Give seaweed salad a chance.
What the hell is happening with hemp in the US?
The College of the Rockies really wants to put its genebank to work for the local community.
NBPGR building awareness of the importance of medicinal and aromatic plants in Arunachal Pradesh.