Nibbles

Nibbles: Insurance edition

Biodiversity is insurance, says insurance company.
Especially biodiversity of fruits and vegetables.
Research by CGIAR into how best to use that insurance generates a 10:1 return on investment. Kind of. Covers breeding et al., but not genebanks. Sigh.
Professor Claire Kremen is awarded the Volvo Environment Prize 2020 for research on how to protect that insurance while feeding the world.
People have been fiddling with that insurance for longer than we thought, archeologists say.

The future is community seedbanks.
The past was crop mixtures. Among other things: two-year-old reviews of books on 18th century agriculture re-upped.
The future is trees. But they need help, hence these resources.
Australia looks to native tree seeds for its future. No help needed.
There will probably be a crop pandemic in the future. There have certainly been ones in the past. Even the recent past. Though plant pathogens do have their uses.
Turkish government seizes seized seeds from the past.
The future of swimming camels is uncertain.

Crop-Climate Suitability Mapping. Yes, another one. I feel a proper post coming on.
Tweet from Sean Hoban on ex situ sampling strategies. I feel a proper post coming on.
Proper blog post explains a really complicated rice domestication paper in about a page.
Proper podcast from Jeremy on, among other things, why coffee leaf rust is not why the Brits drink tea.
Not sure if this is blog post, but it’s a really good example of weaving together (see what I did there?) different pieces of work on the wool dogs (sic) of the Pacific NW.

A cool apple museum in Wenatchee, Washington.
Cool museum exhibit on German colonial exploitation of agricultural raw materials, in Hamburg.
Mohawk culture and teaching embodied in seeds. And not in a museum.
Indian legumes a hit in Ghana, via genebanks, not museums.
Long video from IPK on using data to use genebanks. You mean like above?