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Reflections on the Dasgupta Review Humanity is destroying biodiversity at an accelerating rate, and a major reason is agriculture.  This is not a new revelation, but it is perhaps surprising,…

Alfalfa Pre-Breeding: Spotlight on Alan Humphries LM Salazar | Communications Manager You might not be familiar with alfalfa, but this member of the pea family is one of the world’s most important…

Q&A with Tim Schilling, World Coffee Research Interview: LM Salazar | Crop Trust As we prepare for our next #CropsInColor trip, which will take us to Costa Rica, Panama and El Salvador to explore the…

A Worthy Bean Daniel Debouck, a Belgian researcher who until his retirement a few months ago ran the CIAT genebank, received the Order of Leopold a couple of weeks back. That’s his country’s highest…

An Exciting Start to 2016 Marie Haga | Marie's Corner Let me start out with a big thank you to the German Government. We signed a grant agreement for a EUR 25 million contribution to the Crop Trust…

Food For a Curious Mind: Damaris Odeny on a Career in Agricultural Science This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with…

This Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating the importance of crop diversity with a series of cards you can print and give to your loved ones. Scroll to the bottom of this post to download them.

From a Childhood on a Farm to an Agricultural Scientist: Paula Bramel This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with…

Wild Cousins Boost Eggplant Breeding on Our Warming Planet The world’s farmers urgently need new crop varieties that are resilient to such results of climate change as droughts and outbreaks of new…

Seed Collecting, Conservation and Collaboration in West Africa As a young boy growing up in Niger, Hamidou Falalou fell in love with the search for answers and knew he wanted to become a scientist.…