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RN Breakfast: Global Crop Diversity
Marie Haga sits down with Gregg Borschmann, Environment Editor of RN Breakfast to discuss global crop diversity.
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To feed an extra 2 billion people by...
24 Jun 2013
24 Jun 2013
Reuters: World Seed Banks Get Funds to Tackle Climate, Other Threats
Scientists have agreed on a $109 million plan to strengthen the world's biggest seed banks of crops such as rice and wheat to help protect and develop new varieties resistant to climate change and other threats.
The Global Crop...
30 Jan 2013
30 Jan 2013
Behind the Headlines
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...
16 Oct 2012
16 Oct 2012
Marathon Man
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...
24 Sep 2012
24 Sep 2012
The Individual Mandate to Conserve Crop Diversity
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....
29 Jun 2012
29 Jun 2012