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We recently visited our Crop Wild Relatives partners at the Mekong Delta Development Research Institute, Can Tho University, in Vietnam. Professor Huynh Quang Tin is leading a participatory plant breeding (PPB) initiative where 13...

A landscape of thorny agaves, cacti, mesquite trees, and rock is not the first place one might imagine searching for the future of food. How could such a hot, dry place contain some of the keys to nourishing the world?

Colin...

Demand for tea is on the rise. However, tea farmers are facing many challenges. Climate change and socio-economic issues are affecting production. Worse, most of the tea we consume comes from just a few old varieties, while there...

"What’s for dinner? 

It’s a question asked every day in homes around the world. No other organization has done as much to ensure families—especially the poorest—have an answer to that question as CGIAR, the world’s largest global...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

Whenever the subject of the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (the Treaty) comes up, I automatically think of the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire. The movie was...

Keeping up with the demand for rice seeds: The automation of seed sorting at the International Rice Genebank

To an untrained eye, all sheep in a paddock look alike. But shepherds can call all the sheep in their flock by name and...

Coffea arabica is a diverse species. Yet a 2014 study of farmed and wild plants found that only a fraction of the species’ genetic diversity is represented in cultivated coffees. Wild arabica is certain to hold many more...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science