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Showcasing Seeds: The Aesthetic of Diversity

Showcasing Seeds: The Aesthetic of Diversity At face value, it’s hard to understand the potential of seeds. Often only a few millimeters in size, their importance may also seem small to the average…

Show Me the Non-monetary Benefits

Show Me the Non-monetary Benefits Luigi Guarino | Director of Science Whenever the subject of the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (the Treaty) comes up, I…

Show Me the Non-Monetary Benefits

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

Seventy Years On, A Global Garden Keeps the Coffee Hot, Part 2

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…

Seventy Years On, a Global Garden Keeps the Coffee Hot

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…

Serving Up Fruit and Vegetable Diversity

Serving Up Fruit and Vegetable Diversity Luigi Guarino | Director of Science A healthy diet includes five servings of fruits & vegetables daily. Yet the cost of such a diet exceeds what the…

Fresh fruits and vegetables on shelf in supermarket. For healthy concept

Serving Up Fruit and Vegetable Diversity

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

Senegal

Senegal has a population of around 14 million. The Senegalese economy has traditionally been focused on the peanut, a vital cash crop. However, the government has worked to diversify both cash crops…

Selection by Stone

Selection by Stone Abdellah Bounagua clutched the stone tightly in his weathered hands. With it, he could cast one vote. The durum wheat farmer from Marchouch in northern Morocco wanted to make sure…

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The Crop Diversity Digest

From cutting-edge research to work saving seeds in communities, even our small actions can have a big impact on saving crop diversity and putting it to good use. Read the latest news highlighting these efforts and more.