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What Works: Stopping the Sands and Increasing the Harvest
Share By Molly Theobald This post is part of a series where Nourishing the Planet asks its readers: What works? Every week we’ll ask the question and every week you can join the conversation! Farmers...
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Innovation of the Week: Better Cotton, Better Livelihoods
Share By Janeen Madan Ninety percent of the world’s cotton is grown by farmers in developing countries – they sell their cotton to local spinners and ginners that supply large international buyers,...
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Sweet detar: Food, Fragrance, Fodder, and More
Share By Kim Kido From food to fragrance, virtually no part of the sweet detar tree (Detarium microcarpum) goes unused. A study of the Mare aux Hippopotames Biosphere Reserve in western Burkina Faso...
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Tree Grape: Form, Function, and Flavor of a Grape on an African Tree
Share By Matt Styslinger Tree grapes (Lannea microcarpa) are actually in the same family as mangoes, cashews, and pistachios, but they look and taste more like grapes. And although they do not grow on...
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Innovation of the Week: Banking Today to Conserve Plants for the Future
Share By Janeen Madan According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a quarter of the world’s known plant species—some 60,000 to 100,000 species—are threatened with extinction. The Millennium Seed...
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Shea: For people and planet
Share By Kim Kido Shea (Vitellaria paradoxa, nilotica) is one of few trees that can withstand the harsh, semi-arid climate of the Sudan and Guinean savannas and the Sahel. Hardy, drought-resistant,...
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Nourishing the Planet TV: Banking Today to Conserve Plants for the Future
Share In this week’s episode, Nourishing the Planet intern Julia Eder discusses the Kew Millennium Seed Bank, which is collecting seeds from endangered plant species to conserve plant diversity and to...
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Protecting “The Last Farmer” from Globalization
Share By Leah Baines Throughout the world, agriculture from small farmers provides food for 70 percent of the population, while industrial agriculture only supplies 30 percent. But, ironically, most of...
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