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Luigi Guarino | Director of Science 

There’s an outfit called Conservation Optimism. Its mission is as its name suggests: inspiring biodiversity conservation through good news. I really admire their moxie, because optimism is a...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

With January already well underway, the Crop Trust communications team challenged me to pick five reasons to be excited about 2019. With so much work to choose from, it was no easy task. But as many of...

Interview: LM Salazar | Crop Trust

As we prepare for our next #CropsInColor trip, which will take us to Costa Rica, Panama and El Salvador to explore the role coffee plays in people’s lives there, we reach out to Dr. Tim...

Michael Major, Crop Trust

Banner photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT

Genesys, the global online portal to information about plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) in genebanks, has been significantly enhanced with the...

Coffee is expected to be extinct in the wild within 65 years. Over the past three years, however, we have consumed more coffee than produced---while at the same time relying on just two varieties of coffee for the majority of...

The potato is eaten all over the world, but the original home of the potato was the Andes. The Crop Trust traces the path of some potatoes from the Andes to Svalbard to Germany.

Interview and photos: LM Salazar | Crop Trust

I met up with world-renowned chef Dan Barber during my recent #CropsInColor trip to the Northeast region of the United States. Dan has become a leading voice in the global...

Bonnie Furman and Stefano Diulgheroff (FAO)

Luigi Guarino (Crop Trust)

How do genebank managers know they’re doing all they can to maintain the quality and availability of their collections?

Perhaps the most important tool at...