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Marathon Man By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs Quick, who won the marathon at the London Olympics? Come on, it was only a couple of weeks ago. No? Well, don't worry, I can't…

Behind the Headlines By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs John Galsworthy quipped that headlines are generally twice the size of the events they refer to. So such examples of that…

Another View: Hungry World Must Conserve Crop Varieties The U.S. Drought Monitor website does not look pretty. Iowa has seen two consecutive years of drought. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says…

Let there be German Bread By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs There’s a reason why the tag line for the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization is “Fiat panis,” or “Let there be…

Fact-checking the zeitgeist By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs We use 43 muscles to frown but only 17 to smile. 89.2% of all statistics are made up…

Australian Deposit into Svalbard and Australia's Crop Wild Relatives NEW AUSTRALIAN SEED DEPOSIT Indigenous crop wild relatives, brassica, oats among seeds that find safe haven in Svalbard Global…

The Eggplant CWR Pre-Breeding Project Valencia, Spain (15-16 May 2014) – Why eggplants? Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an important vegetable crop, especially in tropical and subtropical…

India Deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault A box containing 25 accessions of pigeon pea marks first-ever seed deposit from India to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault In April 2014, India made its…

A Legend Retires: Jane Toll On the 23rd of October 1987, a young crop collector named Jane Toll was taking part in a collecting mission in central Chad, helping the staff of the young country’s…

More Than Just Talking Shop: AGM 2014 By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs All the genebank managers of the CGIAR centres get together every year as part of the CGIAR…