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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…

The Economist: Banking Against Doomsday The Economist reports on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in its print edition in March 2012. With a heavy clunk, the steel outer doors of the Svalbard Global…

Beyond Talk: Putting Private Capital to Work for the Future of Agriculture Marie Haga | Marie's Corner On 28 April, at the G-20 meeting in Berlin, the Crop Trust hosted an Expert Panel entitled:…

Enhancing the Genesys Portal Information is liberating Data and information systems make our lives easier, in our personal capacity and in our workspace, allowing us to access the information we…

Time for Coffee Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs The Economist’s writers are by and large a pretty hard-nosed lot. I guess it’s in their job description. So this final paragraph in an…

The Food Forever Initiative Marie Haga | Marie's Corner 2.5 can mean anything. Percent. Degrees. Kilometers. Kilos. Centimeters. For everyone connected to biodiversity it has a very special…