A study of yam domestication practices among smallholders has provided an insight into how farmers exploit wild plant genetic resources so as to adapt them to a

Brings together research from a range of fields to address key questions relating to agriculture: its origins and long-term sustainability.

Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts. This work includes co

Root and tuber crops are important to agriculture, food security and income for 2.2 billion people in developing countries. These species produce large quantiti

Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since