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The Squashes of Autumn, From Domestication to Dessert Words by Paul Cox for #CropsInColor Photos by Luis Salazar, Crop Trust In a field at dawn, Petra Page-Mann is picking squash. Although…

Supporting the Application of the FAO Genebank Standards Bonnie Furman and Stefano Diulgheroff (FAO) Luigi Guarino (Crop Trust) How do genebank managers know they’re doing all they can to maintain…

Chef Dan Barber Talks Deliciousness Through Plant Breeding Interview and photos: LM Salazar | Crop Trust I met up with world-renowned chef Dan Barber during my recent #CropsInColor trip to the…

More Than Just Passport Data Now Available on Genesys Michael Major, Crop Trust Banner photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT Genesys, the global online portal to information about plant genetic resources for…

Five Reasons to be Excited About 2019 Marie Haga | Marie's Corner With January already well underway, the Crop Trust communications team challenged me to pick five reasons to be excited about 2019.…

Wake Up and Smell the Good News Luigi Guarino | Director of Science  There’s an outfit called Conservation Optimism. Its mission is as its name suggests: inspiring biodiversity conservation…

CePaCT Donor Roundtable: Discussing support for the Pacific’s most important genebank Donors, Pacific Community (SPC) scientists and the Crop Trust will meet in Suva, Fiji, at the end of March to…

Our Food System: Facing a Titanic Problem? Luigi Guarino | Director of Science Whenever a new report on some aspect or other of the food system comes out, the metaphors start flying around. We saw…

A Homecoming for Rice AfricaRice will open its new genebank later this year, in Mbe, Côte d’Ivoire, more than a decade after the center re-located to Benin during a civil war. But first, all its rice…

Time for Tea Luigi Guarino | Director of Science  My mother-in-law, Hilda Gathoni, has been growing tea for most of her 83 years. The same tea. The tea she and her family also drink. It’s about…