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How Does a Toxic Grasspea Save Lives? Dr. Haileyesus Getahun was traveling in the remote north of his native Ethiopia when he encountered a painful sight. After cruising over a beautiful but arid…

How Fiery Desert Chilis Can Protect Us from Climate Change A landscape of thorny agaves, cacti, mesquite trees, and rock is not the first place one might imagine searching for the future of food. How…

How Much Do Countries Benefit From One Another’s Crop Diversity? Bananas originated in South and Southeast Asia, and are now produced throughout the world’s tropics and eaten in at least 192…

How Peru's Potato Museum Could Stave Off World Food Crisis Dan Collyns | The Guardian With a climate changing faster than most crops can adapt and food security under threat around the world,…

How Rice Hidden by a Woman Fleeing Slavery in the 1700s Could Help Her Descendants Descendants of enslaved Africans in Suriname, known as the Saamaka Maroons, cultivated a unique rice variety which…

How this Arctic Vault Could Provide the Food of the Future The Svalbard Global Seed Vault stores duplicate copies of most of the crop diversity in the world. As part of the Our Planet Project, a…

How To Feed a Growing Global Population in the Midst of a Climate Crisis By Stefan Schmitz, Executive  Director of Crop Trust and Tony Simons, Director General of World…

By Stefan Schmitz, Executive Director of Crop Trust and Tony Simons, Director General of World Agroforestry

How to Save Coffee From Climate Change Climate change demands a food revolution. Faced with heat, drought, pests and diseases, the crops we eat every day could become relics in a generation or less,…