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Any Genebanks on the Road to Rio?
Luigi Guarino
The fact that this year – on June 20, to be precise – the ten-yearly Earth Summit roadshow (or the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to give it its full moniker) is returning to where it all...
4 Jun 2012
4 Jun 2012
The Genebank Pushover
Luigi Guarino
The Copenhagen Consensus sounds like a minor Robert Ludlum novel – perhaps something from his unjustly neglected, more sedate late period – but it’s actually far scarier. The consensus is that of economists, about...
23 May 2012
23 May 2012
A Crop on Both Your Houses
Luigi Guarino
Good vs Evil. East vs West. Capulets vs Montagues. Barça vs Real. We like to deal in such binary choices. It makes life so much easier. None of that groping around in the grey shadows of doubt. Love it or leave it....
30 Apr 2012
30 Apr 2012
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. Huanglongbing has come to their state. This nasty disease -- also known...
25 Apr 2012
25 Apr 2012
Financial Times: Expat Lives, In Seeds We Trust
The Financial Times discusses Cary Fowler and the Global Crop Diversity Trust in "Expat lives: In seeds we trust."
"Cary Fowler moved from Memphis to Rome – and commutes to the Arctic Circle."
14 Apr 2012
14 Apr 2012