by Neil Palmer | Feb 8, 2016
Climate change will open up a “dry corridor” in Central America that could leave thousands of farmers struggling to produce one of the region’s most important and long-established foods – beans. The findings are published today by researchers from the...
by Georgina Smith | Dec 9, 2015
You may never have heard of it before. A globetrotting crop by all accounts, it’s thought to have been introduced into Southeast Asia in the Philippines from Mexico in the 19th Century. As our diet becomes ever more complex, cassava – or tapioca – a...
by Georgina Smith | Oct 5, 2015
New drought-resilient white beans – most commonly used to make baked beans – will be deployed to Ethiopia, as erratic weather threatens national production and farmers’ incomes. Severe drought in Ethiopia, Africa’s largest exporter of the bean used to make...
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