Nibbles

Nibbles: Access to seeds indeces, Rare plants genebank, Maize and climate change, Bogota market

So there’s an African Seed Access Index whose relationship with the Access to Seeds Index is unclear.
The Pacific Northwest has a genebank called the Miller Seed Vault whose relationship with the National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation in Fort Collins, Colorado is quite clear.
The relationship between climate change and changes in crop distributions is becoming clearer, and more worrying.
What is the relationship between huge markets such as Samper Mendoza in Bogota and plant conservation?

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.

Maharashtra to set up a genebank, but definitely NOT the nation’s first.
Meanwhile, in Kashmir…
Let them eat cassava cake.
Minor roots and tubers not so minor in Malawi. Cassava unavailable for comment.
Area man shares heirloom tomatoes. Not many people hurt.
How to make the most, sustainably, of 12 wild-harvested plant species. According to FAO.
Indigenous peoples have been harvesting oysters sustainably for millennia.
The wonderful Plant Humanities Initiative does recipes.