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From Collection to Cultivation

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About the Project

  • About the Project overview
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People

  • People overview
  • Helen Anne Curry
  • Tad Brown
  • Stephanie Bryan
  • Erinn Campbell
  • Leo Chu
  • Zsuzsanna Ihar
  • João P. R. Joaquim
  • Hitesh Pant
  • Daniela Sclavo
  • Project Alumni
  • Local Advisory Group
  • Visiting Scholars

Research

  • Research overview
  • Seed Scenius: Reinventing the History of Crop Innovation
  • The History of Crop Science and the Future of Food
  • Historical Perspectives on CGIAR
  • Endangered Maize
  • The Global History of Seed Banks
  • Peanut Traces: Crop Collections, Industrial Processing, and Intellectual Property
  • Building Global Networks to Anticipate Plant Pest Invasions
  • The History of Seed Sovereignty and Peasant-friendly Farming
  • Conservation and Flavour: The Case of Chile
  • Agricultural Virology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
  • Armed and Arable: The Greening of a Cold-War Archipelago
  • Harvesting Diversity: International Agricultural Research in Taiwan and Southeast Asia
  • Brazil’s Living Seed Bank
  • Seed Protectionism: Authoritarian Populism and the Future of the Global Gene Pool
  • Home
  • About the Project

    About the Project

    About the Project overview
    • Contact Us
  • People

    People

    People overview
    • Helen Anne Curry
    • Tad Brown
    • Stephanie Bryan
    • Erinn Campbell
    • Leo Chu
    • Zsuzsanna Ihar
    • João P. R. Joaquim
    • Hitesh Pant
    • Daniela Sclavo
    • Project Alumni
    • Local Advisory Group
    • Visiting Scholars
  • Research

    Research

    Research overview
    • Seed Scenius: Reinventing the History of Crop Innovation
    • The History of Crop Science and the Future of Food
    • Historical Perspectives on CGIAR
    • Endangered Maize
    • The Global History of Seed Banks
    • Peanut Traces: Crop Collections, Industrial Processing, and Intellectual Property
    • Building Global Networks to Anticipate Plant Pest Invasions
    • The History of Seed Sovereignty and Peasant-friendly Farming
    • Conservation and Flavour: The Case of Chile
    • Agricultural Virology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
    • Armed and Arable: The Greening of a Cold-War Archipelago
    • Harvesting Diversity: International Agricultural Research in Taiwan and Southeast Asia
    • Brazil’s Living Seed Bank
    • Seed Protectionism: Authoritarian Populism and the Future of the Global Gene Pool
  • Resources
  • The Greenhouse
  • Events
  • Blog and News Updates
    • Home
    • About the Project
    • People
    • Research
    • Resources
    • The Greenhouse
    • Events
    • Blog and News Updates

Research

  • Research overview
  • Seed Scenius: Reinventing the History of Crop Innovation
  • The History of Crop Science and the Future of Food
  • Historical Perspectives on CGIAR
  • Endangered Maize
  • The Global History of Seed Banks
  • Peanut Traces: Crop Collections, Industrial Processing, and Intellectual Property
  • Building Global Networks to Anticipate Plant Pest Invasions
  • The History of Seed Sovereignty and Peasant-friendly Farming
  • Conservation and Flavour: The Case of Chile
  • Agricultural Virology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
  • Armed and Arable: The Greening of a Cold-War Archipelago
  • Harvesting Diversity: International Agricultural Research in Taiwan and Southeast Asia
  • Brazil’s Living Seed Bank
  • Seed Protectionism: Authoritarian Populism and the Future of the Global Gene Pool

Research

The research of project staff and affiliates ranges widely across the history of twentieth and twenty-first century agricultural science and development. You can learn more by following the links through to different topics below, or learn more about what each researcher is interested in via the researcher profile pages.

To find publications arising from these research projects, visit our Resources page.

From Collection to Cultivation

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