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Increasing temperatures are pushing potato farmers higher up the Peruvian Andes. But what if rather than trying to escape climate change, they confront it? They need to plant potatoes that are more resistant to threats, but those...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

Whenever a new report on some aspect or other of the food system comes out, the metaphors start flying around. We saw that recently with the EAT-Lancet report on what a healthy diet from a...

Donors, Pacific Community (SPC) scientists and the Crop Trust will meet in Suva, Fiji, at the end of March to discuss ways to raise money for the genebank of SPC’s Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT).

CePaCT conserves a...

Nearly 5,000 seed samples of crop wild relatives saved in challenging, six-year effort to secure the future of food.

Bonn, Germany and Washington, DC (3 DECEMBER 2019)—As the world grapples with the challenge of sustainably...

A Genebank Platform Impact Fellow looks at the journey of beans from the genebank to farmers’ fields.

Stefania Sellitti may not be able to trace her family history back beyond her great grandfather, but she can trace the...

Interview: LM Salazar | Crop Trust

One could say that her professional relationship with coffee began with an old photograph of her late father. By chance, the image fell out of a book. He was standing in her family’s coffee...

Mmm coffee. Its aroma rises and lingers in the air. You not only smell it, but see it too, in the swirling steam that sways upward and dissipates into nothingness. It teases you: come on, take a sip.

For coffee lovers everywhere,...

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...