Category: Travels for Crop Trust
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8 June 2026
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31 May 2026
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28 May 2026
DORA AND THE FIERCE VOLUNTEER
Some crops don’t wait to be planted. They arrive uninvited,… -
23 May 2026
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19 May 2026
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15 May 2026
DANCIN’ UNDER THE BAOBAB TREE
The baobab tree has a most significant importance to the… -
11 May 2026
THE DOOR OF NO RETURN
Today my colleague, Scott Christiansen, and I stood inside Osu… -
4 May 2026
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22 February 2026
MOUNTAINS, HORSES AND JAILOO
On maps, Kyrgyzstan looks like a country made of ridgelines…. -
27 November 2025
SWEETPOTATOES A LA SINGIDA
When I heard that my colleague Scott Christiansen and I… -
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,… -
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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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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24 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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11 December 2019
POTATOES FOR A CHANGING CLIMATE
Climate change is reducing potato yields due to drought, heat,… -
1 May 2019
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7 June 2018
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6 June 2018
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6 June 2018
JOY IN THE FINGER MILLET FIELD
Margaret, a progressive farmer in Kakamega County of western Kenya,… -
6 June 2018
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5 June 2018
JONAH, THE KENYAN TEA PLUCKER
It’s an all-day journey from Nairobi to Kisimu, where my… -
5 June 2018
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16 May 2018
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16 May 2018
REPLENISHING THE SEED OF THE FERTILE CRESCENT
Ahmed Amri stood in the middle of a checkerboard-patterned field…. -
15 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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FUN IN THE GENEBANK
In the 48 hours I was at ICARDA’s Terbol station in Lebanon, I shot close to 1000 photos. This is my favourite and sums up the joy I felt in sharing time with ICARDA’s Genetic Resources team. As I started firing off shots of Ahmed Amri and Mariana Yazbek in the genebank’s active collection, I questioned why Ahmed was so serious. Earlier in the day he had told me ‘I am always smiling’. I must have caught him in a serious moment of reflection while studying the bar codes of the…
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MARUTI THE PIGEONPEA SAVIOUR
In the early 1980s, the Indian state of Karnataka was suffering. Its principle commercial crop, pigeonpea, was being devastated by wilt. Researchers discovered some pigeonpea seeds in the genebank of the International Crops Research Center for Semi-Arid Tropics which were resistant to wilt. The seeds were directly released from the genebank to pigeonpea specialists in Karnataka within a few years, the pigeonpea industry was restored and is thriving today. I wanted to see the long-lasting impact of this direct release so ICRISAT’s Head of Genebank, Dr Hari Upadhyaya, took my Crop…
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