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More Than Just a Cup O Joe Mmm coffee. Its aroma rises and lingers in the air. You not only smell it, but see it too, in the swirling steam that sways upward and dissipates into nothingness. It…

Seventy Years On, a Global Garden Keeps the Coffee Hot In March 1949, a group of experts started a special kind of coffee plantation on the land of the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher…

Seventy Years On, A Global Garden Keeps the Coffee Hot, Part 2 Coffea arabica is a diverse species. Yet a 2014 study of farmed and wild plants found that only a fraction of the species’ genetic…

C'est La Richesse Of humanity’s essential food crops, perhaps none is less honored than Phaseolus vulgaris, labeled in both Latin and English as the “common bean”. Although it is certainly common,…

TED Talks: Cary Fowler This fantastic TED talk brings people closer to understanding the importance of crop…

Helping Genebanks and Their Users Get Along Luigi Guarino Genebanks: what are they good for? While the answer is rarely the emphatic “Absolutely nothing!” of the anti-war song, ambivalence – or…

A Modest Proposal Luigi Guarino The financial woes of Ireland are regularly in the news these days, though a respectful respite seems thankfully to have been observed recently, perhaps in honour of…

Latin American Crop Collections Rescue Effort SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA (7 April 2011)—Crop specialists in Central America announced today that a major rescue effort is underway in one of the…

This Crazy World Luigi Guarino What you – and they – are looking at is a small fraction of the world’s largest collection of bean diversity. You can admire it, like these guys are doing, at the…

A Clockwork Orange: Apocalypse Not Yet Luigi Guarino Californians flipping through the news over their organic, high-fibre muesli must have spluttered orange juice all over their shiny new iPad3s.…