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A Turn in Dr Sibbald’s Garden
Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs
Robert Sibbald is an immensely impressive figure of the late 17th century. He was, for example, the first person to venture a scientific description of the blue whale, originally...
30 Jan 2017
30 Jan 2017
Newsletter: Forages for the Future, Issue 3
Forages for the Future, Issue 3 is now available! In this newsletter, Forage scientists, Bruce Pengelly and Brigitte Maass, take stock of the first-year outcomes of implementing the Global Strategy for the Conservation and...
19 Jan 2017
19 Jan 2017
A Look Back on 2016
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
In this "corner" we will take a look back at an exciting Crop Trust 2016 and welcome 2017 with some reflections on what we want to achieve.
The Big Picture
2016, the planet’s hottest year on record,...
10 Jan 2017
10 Jan 2017
Ministerial Luncheon: Less Rain, More Grain
Agricultural Biodiversity and Water: Less Rain, More Grain
The Crop Trust, with the support of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, will host a Luncheon of Ministers of Agriculture on 20 January 2017 in Berlin,...
9 Jan 2017
9 Jan 2017 - 9 Jan 2017
A Bandwagon in the Mainstream
Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs
Mainstreaming has been at full flood of late. The 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is going on right now in Cancun, Mexico,...
8 Dec 2016
8 Dec 2016
#CropsInColor in Latin America
Latin America is a large region that looms even larger in the history of food. Some of humanity’s most important crops originated here, like maize, cassava, potatoes, beans, tomatoes and chili peppers. All of these remain basic...
5 Dec 2016
5 Dec 2016
A Change in Seasons
Confronting the message of drought in a shifting maize belt
Farming in Southern Africa takes good crops, ingenuity, and rain. But can it work with two out of three?
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5 Dec 2016
5 Dec 2016