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A Modest Proposal Luigi Guarino The financial woes of Ireland are regularly in the news these days, though a respectful respite seems thankfully to have been observed recently, perhaps in honour of…

Latin American Crop Collections Rescue Effort SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA (7 April 2011)—Crop specialists in Central America announced today that a major rescue effort is underway in one of the…

This Crazy World Luigi Guarino What you – and they – are looking at is a small fraction of the world’s largest collection of bean diversity. You can admire it, like these guys are doing, at the…

A Clockwork Orange: Apocalypse Not Yet Luigi Guarino Californians flipping through the news over their organic, high-fibre muesli must have spluttered orange juice all over their shiny new iPad3s.…

A Crop on Both Your Houses Luigi Guarino Good vs Evil. East vs West. Capulets vs Montagues. Barça vs Real. We like to deal in such binary choices. It makes life so much easier. None of that groping…

The Genebank Pushover Luigi Guarino The Copenhagen Consensus sounds like a minor Robert Ludlum novel – perhaps something from his unjustly neglected, more sedate late period – but it’s actually far…

Any Genebanks on the Road to Rio? Luigi Guarino The fact that this year – on June 20, to be precise – the ten-yearly Earth Summit roadshow (or the United Nations Conference on Sustainable…

Let Them Eat Quinoa Cake Luigi Guarino Getting a chenopodiaceous Andean pseudo-cereal on a coffee shop menu is as difficult as it sounds. My friend Stefano Padulosi is endearingly self-effacing about…

Genebanks Meet Donors, Live Happily Ever After Luigi Guarino I’m not saying for a moment that the world of crop diversity conservation is anything like a screwball comedy. But I do sometimes wish…

The Individual Mandate to Conserve Crop Diversity Luigi Guarino The US Affordable Care Act has proved complicated, divisive and controversial, but it will help to protect people against disease and…