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Jorge León Arguedas: The Botanist Who Helped Protect Coffee’s Future
This edition of our Seed Heroes series celebrates Jorge León Arguedas, the Costa Rican botanist who helped build one of the world’s most important coffee collections. Decades later, the diversity he worked to conserve remains a...
6 Nov 2026
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Daniel Debouck: The Man Who Knows His Beans
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...
21 Jun 2018
The Gregor Mendel Foundation Honors ICARDA
In a personal account of the event, our Deputy Executive Director Paula Bramel talks about the ceremony, which was held in Berlin on 19 March.
Last month the Gregor Mendel Foundation awarded its Innovation Prize to Mahmoud Sohl,...
4 Apr 2015
4 Apr 2015