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Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

How About Them Apples? Research Orchards Chart a Fruit’s Future. Scientists working in research groves, like one in Nova Scotia, are developing your favorite new apple variety. Imagine reaching up…

How CGIAR is Feeding Our Future "What’s for dinner?  It’s a question asked every day in homes around the world. No other organization has done as much to ensure families—especially the…

How Changing Diets Leave Us Exposed to War, Extreme Weather and Market Turbulence The convergence of global diets means just three crops provide 50% of the world’s calories. When shocks come, they…

How Digital Tools Help Us Conserve the World’s Seeds — and Use Them Imagine a library filled with millions of books. Some are decades old, while others are newly published. People can access these…

How Do We Estimate the Consequences of Global Inaction on Genetic Diversity Conservation, Exchange, and Use? By Luigi Guarino, David Spielman, and Keith Wiebe Target 2.5 of the Sustainable…

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…