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By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs

John Galsworthy quipped that headlines are generally twice the size of the events they refer to. So such examples of that artform as “Cost of Conserving Global Biodiversity Set...

By Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs

Quick, who won the marathon at the London Olympics? Come on, it was only a couple of weeks ago. No? Well, don't worry, I can't remember either. So here's an easier question. Who...

Luigi Guarino

Luigi Guarino

The US Affordable Care Act has proved complicated, divisive and controversial, but it will help to protect people against disease and medical misfortune. The world’s crops have the same sort of health problems....

Luigi Guarino

Luigi Guarino

I’m not saying for a moment that the world of crop diversity conservation is anything like a screwball comedy. But I do sometimes wish meet-cutes happened in that world as Billy Wilder would have written them.

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Luigi Guarino

Luigi Guarino

Getting a chenopodiaceous Andean pseudo-cereal on a coffee shop menu is as difficult as it sounds. My friend Stefano Padulosi is endearingly self-effacing about this achievement in a recent blog post extolling the...