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Keynote Address: Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations At the Crop Trust's Pledging Conference in Washington, D.C., the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations gave the keynote…

Pledging Conference Summary Marie Haga | Marie's Corner The Pledging Conference has taken us one step closer to our final goal: assuring the world safeguards and has access to the crop diversity we…

Highlight on Coffee and Information Systems Marie Haga | Marie's Corner We have decided to tweak my corner a little this time, and give you an update on recent developments in two areas of our…

Immigrants Feed Us All By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs No, not my contribution to the debates on Brexit or who should be the next US president. The immigrants I have in mind are…

A Conversation with Simran Sethi By Cierra Martin, Crop Trust This spring I had the pleasure of speaking with Simran Sethi, a journalist and educator focused on food and agriculture and author of…

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…