Crop Diversity Topics
Crop Diversity Topics will keep you in touch with the Trust and provide regular insights into the many different ways in which crop diversity sustains us, the challenges surrounding its conservation, and the curious ways in which mankind has shaped, and is sometimes shaped by, the crops we grow and eat.
No. 12 Food Crisis Déjà Vu
Repeating melodies and song structures can be found in the music of virtually all cultures.....
No. 11 Hardwired!
Admit it. Together with a cup of coffee, daily headlines - murders, wars, scandals and the like - pump us up.....
No. 10 Big Words
Official documents in the field of crop diversity all have a familiar ring to them. Take a look......
No. 9 Note from the Neolithic
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf, known for his concern for the environment, will convene a Royal Colloquium on 'Past Climate Change: Human Survival Strategies' this week...
No. 8 Dinosaurs and Diversity
Adams' apple is extinct. And his beans are gone too. Both apple and bean varieties bearing the name of an early president of the United States have vanished....
No. 7 Emigration Restrictions
The melting snows of Mount Kilimanjaro; the disappearing glaciers...
No. 6 Crops in Collision
I don't take hallucinogenic drugs and I don't suppose you do either. So can you explain how it is that agriculture...
No. 5 Mud, Blood and Genes
Four collections of important crop diversity. Four disasters. Four essential lessons for the future...
No. 4 Posting Profits
The best stamp collections and the worst genebanks have a lot in common. Neither get used for the purpose for which they were intended...
No. 3 A Real Treaty
In a classic children’s story, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, two toy animals, the Rabbit and the Skin Horse discuss what it means to be Real...
No. 2 Orphan Crops
During the Depression in the United States in the 1930s, it is said that some parents too poor to care for their children would put them on a freight train, wave good-bye and hope for the best. Maybe that’s what happened with yams...
No. 1 The Genetics of Water
Every teaspoonful of sugar in your coffee requires 50 cups of water to grow it,according to Pearce. 'Growing the coffee itself requires 140 litres of water, or 1120 cups.' A kilo of rice, moreover, requires an astonishing 3-5,000 liters to grow...