Category: Travels for Crop Trust
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25 November 2025
THE BAMBARA GROUNDNUTS OF UNYAMIKUMBI
If you look at a dried Bambara groundnut in its… -
23 November 2025
THE SINGIDA MORNING MARKET
Sweetpotato leaves wilt quickly. They’re harvested in the early morning… -
21 November 2025
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22 October 2025
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18 October 2025
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15 October 2025
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12 October 2025
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11 April 2025
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14 March 2025
IS ARCTIC SNOW REALLY BLUE?
For years, I have been seeing photographs of the Svalbard… -
28 February 2025
A SEED’S JOURNEY TO THE FAR FAR NORTH
It’s a long long way between Zimbabwe and the Svalbard… -
11 November 2024
BETTER CHICKPEAS FOR KOT SARANG
Blight decimated the chickpea crop in the Punjab village of… -
4 November 2024
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2 November 2024
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5 October 2024
THE CANALS OF THE MEKONG DELTA
Back in the early 19th century the Emperor Gia Long,… -
29 September 2024
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14 September 2024
THE VARIED PERSONALITIES OF MALUNGA
The last time it rained in Malunga was in January…. -
12 September 2024
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8 September 2024
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10 August 2024
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2 August 2024
A POTATO JOURNEY FROM WISCONSIN TO KENYA
I started out begrudgingly planting potatoes for a merit badge… -
27 July 2024
THEY’RE HARVESTING POTATOES IN KENYA
Potato harvesting in Kenya is being transformed through improved farming… -
12 April 2024
THE STIGMA OF GRASSPEA
The ancient Greeks, notably Hippocrates, were pretty wary of grasspea… -
7 March 2024
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5 March 2024
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1 March 2024
GRASSPEA IS A GRACIOUS GIFT OF GOD GLOBALLY (5G)
As I stood in the middle of a 28-acre community… -
27 February 2024
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4 February 2024
PRESERVING MALAN IN CENTRAL KALIMANTAN
Papa Dewi told me about his way of ‘malan’. That… -
27 January 2024
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25 January 2024
I DON’T CARE SWEETPOTATOES
There’s a sweetpotato in Papua New Guinea called ‘gimane’. But… -
1 January 2024
A DAYAK WELCOME IN BORNEO
The inter-tribal warfare amongst the Dayak people of Borneo in… -
1 August 2023
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6 November 2022
A DAY IN THE RICE PADDIES OF CAO PHONG
Timing is so important in photography. And I seem to… -
30 October 2022
A TWILIGHT STROLL THROUGH HANOI’S OLD QUARTER
I came to Vietnam as part of a Crop Trust-supported… -
5 October 2022
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13 December 2019
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1 May 2019
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10 June 2018
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7 June 2018
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16 May 2018
BAALBEK, THE CITY OF THE SUN
While on assignment in Lebanon, I took an afternoon off… -
16 May 2018
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11 December 2017
MARUTI THE PIGEONPEA SAVIOUR
In the early 1980s, the Indian state of Karnataka was…
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ASK THE WOMEN
A long time ago a client asked me to document a forestry project in the rural town of Hojancha in northern Costa Rica. I took photos of proud men standing by amazing stands of introduced eucalypts, Gmelina and teak. The trees were grown for both timber and firewood. But I learned the women weren’t too
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A POTATO JOURNEY FROM WISCONSIN TO KENYA
I started out begrudgingly planting potatoes for a merit badge in Wisconsin. Decades later, I found myself in Kenya, watching advanced potato breeding at work. From garden patches to in vitro labs, I’ve come to appreciate the science behind every spud, and the people shaping its future.
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THEY’RE HARVESTING POTATOES IN KENYA
Potato harvesting in Kenya is being transformed through improved farming practices, including better seed selection, soil management, and access to agricultural support. These changes are helping smallholder farmers increase yields, strengthen food security, and build more resilient livelihoods in the face of climate and economic challenges across the region.
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THE STIGMA OF GRASSPEA
The ancient Greeks, notably Hippocrates, were pretty wary of grasspea (Lathyrus sativa). They figured if they ate too much they’d get some neurological disorders. The stigma of grasspea still persists today in many parts of the world.Last month I joined a team from the Crop Trust‘s BOLD Project to visit researchers and farmers in India
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CROSSING THE BRAHMAPUTRA
The Brahmaputra is one of the mightiest rivers in the world. From its source on the Angsi Glacier in Tibet it flows nearly 4,000 kilometres to its mouth in the Bay of Bengal. Our hosts at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute wanted to take us to a char on the river. A char is a
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THE PEA OF THE CHAR
As I jumped off the horse cart and landed on the sandy soil of Charbongram, an island in the Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh, I kicked what appeared to be a weed. It was a scraggly, prostrate plant somehow surviving where no other plants could. ‘That’s grasspea,’ said ICARDA pulses breeder Shiv Agrawal proudly as if
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GRASSPEA IS A GRACIOUS GIFT OF GOD GLOBALLY (5G)
As I stood in the middle of a 28-acre community managed grasspea field in West Bengal, India, I asked how the villagers divided the tasks of managing the field. There were puzzled looks on the farmers’ faces. ‘There is no labour with grasspea … only sowing. God does the rest.’ Former ICARDA pulse breed Ashuthosh
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SHUSHILA SPEAKS OUT
As our convoy of three cars arrived to Bamuliya, a village an hour out of Bhopal, we were met by a gaggle of men. They escorted us to a field neatly planted with grasspea. I asked which of the men was the farmer and then attached a microphone to his shirt. I forgot some equipment,
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PRESERVING MALAN IN CENTRAL KALIMANTAN
Papa Dewi told me about his way of ‘malan’. That means farming in his native Ngaju Dayak language of Central Kalimantan in Borneo, Indonesia. And it’s based on planting seeds according to local wisdom and ancestral customs. Those seeds are inseparable from the Dayak way of life. But the malan traditions are disappearing as traditional
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