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Many people will be familiar with the old adage, “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” But life did not give us lemons. The lemon is not a naturally occurring fruit, but a cross between a sour orange and a citron. And a sour...

The Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development (BOLD) Project workshop held in Bonn, Germany in May 2023 marked a significant milestone. It was the first time since the start of BOLD over a year ago that project...

In the highlands of Peru, a group of farmers safeguard their livelihoods and those of future generations. They are conserving the diversity of their staple food: the potato.

Some members of AGUAPAN (Association of Guardians of...

Joy Mugisha helped establish a seedbank in her village over a decade ago. One of more than twenty in Uganda, the Kiziba community seedbank serves as a model for conserving crop diversity at the community level, enhancing the...

The people of rural India love their bajra chapatis. These flatbreads made of pearl millet flour are a highly nutritious staple in the diet of millions of Indians. And farmers love pearl millet because it will grow where other...

To some people, broccoli is like math: You’re pretty sure that you won’t enjoy it, so you assume that you need to sugar-coat it – or, rather, cheese-coat it – for it to become somewhat palatable.

But what if we were kinder to...

Conserving crop diversity is not just about adventurous activities like trekking through the jungle on elephant-back to track down the “lost” wild relatives of beans or potatoes.

The day-to-day routine of running a genebank is...

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2022 has been a year with two different sides.

On the one hand, the world is ramping up its efforts in fighting climate change. With the world gradually opening up following the challenges of...

The origins of chocolate can be traced back to ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, who revered chocolate as the "Food of the Gods." They incorporated it into their sacred rituals and celebrated its medicinal properties.

Today,...

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At the beginning of 2022, many of us expected this to be a year when life began to return to normal after the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. But while we have gradually begun to return to...

What behaves like a chameleon, comes in 50 shades of red, green, orange, yellow and even purple, and gets sweeter with age?

It may sound like a creature from a fairy tale, but the real world of plants has an answer all of its...

Reducing risks to genebanks in Nigeria and Benin is one of the objectives of the Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development (BOLD) project. 

When the lights went out during the launch ceremony of the BOLD...