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The business guru Peter Drucker was fond of saying that you can’t improve what you can’t measure. It is debatable to what extent conservation resembles business, but conservationists certainly seem to have taken this particular...

Luigi Guarino | Crop Trust Director of Science and Programs

LM Salazar | Communications Manager

You might not be familiar with alfalfa, but this member of the pea family is one of the world’s most important crops for feeding livestock. As part of our Crop Wild Relatives project, our...

Luigi Guarino | Crop Trust Director of Science and Programs

Luigi Guarino | Crop Trust Director of Science and Programs

Imagine I’m your neighbour, and I have something you want, a tool say, to fix your car. Can we come to some arrangement that will make both of us happy?

Well, I could...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

It’s been a particularly “wild” time for many Crop Trust staff recently, with teams heading to far-flung corners of the world - and often far off the beaten path - as part of the Crop Wild Relatives...

IITA is eliminating viruses from cassava germplasm so it can safely be transported from East Africa to Nigeria.

Morag Ferguson is thrilled with the results of a recent genotyping study. It seems that the cassava landraces she has...

The world’s leading expert on the diversity of beans has collected 4,000 accessions in 38 expeditions through 11 countries and has discovered 16 new species.

Daniel Debouck began his career with a bit of a quandary. It was 1977...