The Man Who Tried to Feed the World A new documentary about Norman Borlaug
Norman Borlaug gave birth to the Green Revolution, with little thought for the unintended consequences of his work.
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Who owns whom in the food industry Made from concentrate
The number of firms that own the food brands you see is much smaller than you think. That’s not good for consumers or suppliers.
Ireland’s apple collection A visit to the Irish Seedsavers Association yields history and modern science
Apples picked to perfume a room. Undocumented apples and apples with false papers. Foundlings that could give a supermarket apple a run for its money. Others that don’t taste too good but are catnip to blackbirds. A heritage orchard in County Clare, Ireland.
Back to the future for the wheat of tomorrow Farmers in Italy experiment with evolutionary populations
Wheat growers are making use of hugely diverse evolutionary populations to give them the seeds they need.
Long live the Carolina African Runner Who cares whether it really is the “ur-peanut” of the American South
Is the Carolina Runner No.4 peanut “the first peanut cultivated in North America” and does it matter anyway?