Agricultural Biodiversity
JUNE 11, 2023
Plant domestication and agricultural ecologies. A third of agricultural production occurs in sites of high biodiversity conservation priority, with cattle, maize, rice, and soybean posing the greatest threat and sugar beet, pearl millet, and sunflower the lowest. Even more than all the CWRs we did.
Civil Eats
APRIL 22, 2024
The isolation of this ecologically rich archipelago of peaks, located in a “sea” of desert that stretches from northern Mexico into southern Arizona, means that plants grow here that don’t grow anywhere else. Examples of wild and domesticated forms of crops. The first image of each row is the wild relative.
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Food Tank
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Falcon was a widely recognized and sought-after consultant to governments and food-related international organizations including the Agricultural Development Council, the International Rice Research Institute, and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center.
Agritecture Blog
MARCH 30, 2023
Because of the political and scientific focus on staple grain production, just three crops (wheat, rice and maize) make up almost half of global calorie consumption. Of the more than 200,000 edible plant species , people today rely on just 15 for almost all of their regular food intake.
Food Tank
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Demanda Colectiva , Mexico The Demanda Colectiva has fought to protect Mexico’s native maize varieties, which are threatened by uncontrolled cross-pollination from genetically modified corn. Their work is focused on five priority areas: labor and human rights, employment creation, living wages, social protection, and social dialogue.
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