How About Them Apples? Research Orchards Chart a Fruit’s Future.
Scientists working in research groves, like one in Nova Scotia, are developing your favorite new apple variety.
Imagine reaching up to a tree branch and plucking an apple that’s unusually tall and narrow — a variety called Kandil...
29 Sep 2022
All Hail the Rise of the Climate-Smart Potato
Plus, 5 facts about the humble root vegetable’s extraordinary potential
Sandra Cordon | Global Landscapes Forum
The potential of the potato has only just begun to be realized.
Some 368 million metric tons of potatoes were...
19 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020
From Coffee to Cosmetics
Companies are Looking for Ways to Protect the Plants Their Products are Made From
The number of plant species in the world is declining, and climate change is poised to reck further havoc on commodity crops. As shrinking natural...
11 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019
How to Save Coffee From Climate Change
Climate change demands a food revolution. Faced with heat, drought, pests and diseases, the crops we eat every day could become relics in a generation or less, at least where they are currently grown.
Take coffee. Right now, the...
29 Oct 2019
29 Oct 2019
How Fiery Desert Chilis Can Protect Us from Climate Change
A landscape of thorny agaves, cacti, mesquite trees, and rock is not the first place one might imagine searching for the future of food. How could such a hot, dry place contain some of the keys to nourishing the world?
Colin...
22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019
How CGIAR is Feeding Our Future
"What’s for dinner?
It’s a question asked every day in homes around the world. No other organization has done as much to ensure families—especially the poorest—have an answer to that question as CGIAR, the world’s largest global...
10 Jul 2019
10 Jul 2019
Your Morning Coffee - It Isn't an Unlimited Resource
1 October 2017 - On World Coffee Day, Crop Trust Executive Director, Marie Haga, pens an opinion piece in Business Green, warning that our daily cup of coffee is at risk from climate impacts unless urgent action is taken.
From...
1 Oct 2017
1 Oct 2017
The Crop Trust on Looking After Global Food Security
13 March 2017 - New Food Magazine speaks exclusively to Marie Haga.
For those who don’t know, who is the Crop Trust and what do you do?
The Crop Trust’s mandate is to safeguard the many millions of varieties of crops that exist...
13 Mar 2017
13 Mar 2017
The Roots of Eating
Berlin, Germany - 20 November 2016: "What are the 'roots' of our food"? asks Anne Brüning from the German newspaper, die Berliner Zeitung.
In the article, Brüning explains how many of the crops we eat today have originally come...
22 Nov 2016
22 Nov 2016
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