Figures
1.2Detail of Troll and Paffen’s “Seasonal Climates of the Earth,” 1964
3.2Monocultures of sugarcane in the Cauca River valley, Colombia, July 2022
3.3CIAT entomologist Tony Bellotti and Colombian staff, Palmira, Colombia, undated
4.3CIMMYT cereal scientist Evangelina Villegas and colleagues, undated
5.3The first issue of International Arachis Newsletter, May 1987
6.1A New Rices for Africa (NERICA) variety intended for use in lowland ecologies, 2010s
6.4Researchers at an Africa Rice Center site on the Danyi Plateau, Togo, 2007
9.1Maize breeder Ernest Sprague and audience, Poza Rica, Veracruz, 1979
9.3CIMMYT maize breeder Cosmos Magorokosho, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2011
10.1Diagram of fruit shapes accompanying the descriptor list for papaya, 1988
10.2Descriptor lists for papaya fruit shape, skin color, and other traits, 1988
11.4Annual number of accessions to selected gene banks, 1920–2007
11.6Maize seeds from a farmers’ seed fair, Mérida, Mexico, 2014
12.2IRRI patent for a method of increasing the production of hybrid rice seed, 2021