Newer Roots for Agriculture
The journal Nature Sustainability has published a “News & Views” analysis article entitled “Newer Roots for Agriculture” by Jerry Glover, a…
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International Program
Igniting a movement to advance just and diverse perennial grain agriculture at a global scale.
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Ecological Intensification
Sunlight. Water. Soil. Microbes. Plants. People. The Land Institute brings them all together for sustainable farming.
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Perennial Crops
Natural ecosystems feature perennial plants. So does our approach to perennial grain agriculture.
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New High-Yielding Perennial Rice Sees Sustainability Success
New High-Yielding Perennial Rice Sees Sustainability Success Catalyzed by Global Collaboration and Knowledge-Sharing Approach Link to Globe Newswire Release November…
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Perennial Rice Success
New research in the journal Nature Sustainability, and a news article in NPR, detail the successful breeding and intensification of…
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Sustained productivity and agronomic potential of perennial rice
New research reports that a new high-yielding, long-lived perennial rice with significant environmental, economic, and social sustainability impacts is now being grown in Southeast Asia and parts of Africa. Abstract…
Perennials as Future Grain Crops: Opportunities and Challenges
New research published in parternship by Carlsberg Group Future Crops, The Land Institute, University of Copenhagen, Carlsberg Foundation, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, Innovation Fund Denmark, Lund University in…
Changes to architecture of Silphium integrifolium Michx. during domestication reveal new trade-offs for yield
Ongoing domestication of whole leaf rosinweed, Silphium integrifolium Michx., as a perennial oilseed and forage crop aims to increase yields while limiting decreases in other desirable traits (i.e., trade-offs). Two…