Yes, win-win-win diets are possible

Happy to second the sentiment expressed in this snippet from Jeremy’s latest newsletter. And there are so very many more equally interesting snippets to be found across the previous 299 issues, going back almost exactly 11 years. Congrats, Jeremy!

I heartily applaud scientists who take the trouble to create a more accessible version of their research results, and not only because it saves me the effort. I’m very happy, then, to refer you to two versions from two of the authors of Strategies for achieving healthy, sustainable, and equitable dietary transitions, recently published in Science.

The paper “connects the behaviors of consumers, producers, and the midstream actors who influence both supply and demand. It then proposes solutions based on syntheses of evidence across major intervention domains”.

Jess Fanzo and Marc Bellemare — both no stranger to the podcast — have made it easier for the rest of us to understand the complexities and difficulties involved.

Brainfood: Diversification edition

Nibbles: Crop mapping, Climate change impacts, Rice cheese, Andean blueberry, Rare apples, Hungarian genebank, Old seed collection

  1. AI doesn’t recognize tropical agriculture very well.
  2. So presumably it can’t easily be used in assessing climate change impacts in agricultural heritage systems? FAO has some ideas on how to do it.
  3. Maybe rice heritage systems can be used to make cheese.
  4. I bet Andean blueberry (Vaccinium floribundum) goes great with rice cheese.
  5. But if not, heritage apples will probably do.
  6. The Hungarian genebank is hoping to inject heritage grains into non-heritage agricultural systems. AI and FAO unavailable for comment.
  7. Maybe AI can help with the mystery of this old seed collection at the Natural History Museum, London.

Brainfood: Rice breeding, Cowpea diversity, Sorghum pangenome, Faba bean genome, Banana wild relative, Cassava breeding, Seed laws, Microbiome double

Brainfood: Yield double, NUS double, Wild food plants, NbS, Portuguese genebanks, School meals, Indian nutrition, Nutritional diversity trifecta