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Genebanks Meet Donors, Live Happily Ever After
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.
A...
26 Jun 2012
26 Jun 2012
Let Them Eat Quinoa Cake
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...
20 Jun 2012
20 Jun 2012
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