FIRST MESA, ARIZONA – With drought a persistent problem in the Southwest, Hopi/Tewa seed keeper Valerie Nuvayestewa has eagerly joined the effort to …
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The Race to Cultivate Climate-Resilient Crops Is On
Farmers, Indigenous activists and bioengineers are answering the calls for crops that can cope with climate change — from ancient potatoes that can survive droughts to soybeans that could act like succulents. Plus, read about the ways the climate crisis is disrupting harvests today.
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Sam Norton didn’t think too much about the first sea beans he foraged from the fragrant pluff mud just north of Charleston, South Carolina. In 2003, …
John Cushman knows that succulents have tricks up their sleeves. He believes those tricks could shape the future of farming. Geneticists have long …
Farmers in the Bean Belt perilously depend on just two species. New breeding — and traditional growing practices — could fix that. The rare coffee plant sat on an isolated ridge in northern Sierra Leone, a lone shrub with thin leaves and marble-sized fruits. A team of researchers had spent over a …
University of Maine researchers are trying to produce potatoes that can better withstand warming temperatures as the climate changes.
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