April 24, 2012
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A farm volunteer clears the oilseed radish cover crop to prepare garden beds for spring planting. (© Mandy Morgan)
April 19, 2012
Children in Tanzania. (© Benjamin Drummond)
For those of us who have made...
April 1, 2012
March 28, 2012
You may not have heard of the tonka bean, but you’ve probably smelled it. This “bean” — actually the seed from the Dipteryx odorata tree — contains signature notes of caramel, almond and vanilla, making the tonka bean a popular ingredient used in luxury fragrances such as Roberto Cavalli Eau de Parfum, Karleidoscope by Karl Lagerfield and Shine by Heidi Klum.
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March 19, 2012
A worker in Chiapas, Mexico rakes coffee beans as part of the drying process. (© Cristina Mittermeier)
When it comes to...
March 6, 2012
CI and partners recently received a generous grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create the Africa Monitoring System, a new initiative which aims to monitor ecosystems, agriculture and livelihoods in five regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Alex Awiti, an ecosystems ecologist based at Nairobi’s Aga Khan University, will be...