All latest news and events
Let Them Eat Quinoa Cake
Luigi Guarino
Getting a chenopodiaceous Andean pseudo-cereal on a coffee shop menu is as difficult as it sounds. My friend Stefano Padulosi is endearingly self-effacing about this achievement in a recent blog post extolling the...
20 Jun 2012
20 Jun 2012
Any Genebanks on the Road to Rio?
Luigi Guarino
The fact that this year – on June 20, to be precise – the ten-yearly Earth Summit roadshow (or the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to give it its full moniker) is returning to where it all...
4 Jun 2012
4 Jun 2012
The Genebank Pushover
Luigi Guarino
The Copenhagen Consensus sounds like a minor Robert Ludlum novel – perhaps something from his unjustly neglected, more sedate late period – but it’s actually far scarier. The consensus is that of economists, about...
23 May 2012
23 May 2012
A Crop on Both Your Houses
Luigi Guarino
Good vs Evil. East vs West. Capulets vs Montagues. Barça vs Real. We like to deal in such binary choices. It makes life so much easier. None of that groping around in the grey shadows of doubt. Love it or leave it....
30 Apr 2012
30 Apr 2012