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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? View the…

#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,…

The Season of Rewards The story of Harvest in Madagascar and Zambia. View the full story

Los Ingredientes Básicos Algunos de los cultivos más importantes de la humanidad se originaron en América Latina, como el maíz y la yuca, las patatas y los frijoles, los tomates y los chiles. Todos…

More Than Just a Cup O Joe 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…

Seventy Years On, a Global Garden Keeps the Coffee Hot In March 1949, a group of experts started a special kind of coffee plantation on the land of the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher…

Seventy Years On, A Global Garden Keeps the Coffee Hot, Part 2 Coffea arabica is a diverse species. Yet a 2014 study of farmed and wild plants found that only a fraction of the species’ genetic…

C'est La Richesse Of humanity’s essential food crops, perhaps none is less honored than Phaseolus vulgaris, labeled in both Latin and English as the “common bean”. Although it is certainly common,…

TED Talks: Cary Fowler This fantastic TED talk brings people closer to understanding the importance of crop…

Helping Genebanks and Their Users Get Along Luigi Guarino Genebanks: what are they good for? While the answer is rarely the emphatic “Absolutely nothing!” of the anti-war song, ambivalence – or…