Despite the dramatic increase in food production thanks to the Green Revolution, hunger is
increasing among human populations around the world, affecting one in nine people. The …

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the CGIAR, this paper revisits the
genesis of the international center model for agricultural research (IARC). This model …

Databases have revolutionized nearly every aspect of our lives. Information of all sorts is
being collected on a massive scale, from Google to Facebook and well beyond. But as the …

Nominee, 2023 Wallace Award, Agricultural History Society In The Globalization of Wheat,
Marci R. Baranski explores Norman Borlaug's complicated legacy as godfather of the Green …

As climate change increasingly threatens agricultural production, expanding genetic
diversity in crops is an important strategy for climate resilience in many agricultural contexts …

Seeds and other plant materials in seed and gene bank collections are rarely considered
adequately conserved today unless genetically identical duplicate samples have been …

Well before the green revolution in the 1960s, hybrid maize technology that had originally
been developed in the USA spread across the world, starting before the Second World War …

Many changes affecting the management of genetic diversity occurred following
recommendations made by the National Research Council in the aftermath of the Southern …

Laying aside the question of whether saving seeds in freezers is the most promising long‐
term solution to prevent the loss of plant biodiversity and secure our access to food in a …

Societal Impact Statement The problem of genetically modified maize contamination in
Mexico is the result of both planned and unplanned consequences of scientific and political …