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Areas of focus

Crop development

We collaborate with farmers, scientists, and the plants themselves to develop perennial grain crops.

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Participatory science

We collaborate with educators, students, and communities.

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Scaling sustainability

We bring perennial crops from farm to market.

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Shifting the culture

We nurture relationships to bring perennial agriculture to the people.

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Natural systems

We scale the logic of natural ecosystems.

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Future landscapes

We explore the more-than-agricultural context of our work on our planet and the creatures with which we share it.

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Issues

We collaborate with farmers, scientists, and the plants themselves to develop perennial grain crop innovations that reverse agriculture’s contribution to climate change and strengthen farming's climate resilience.

Land use practices like tilling can result in unhealthy soils and erosion. Long-lived perennial grain crops with deep roots build healthy soils, retain and efficiently use water and nutrients, and protect soils from erosion.

Global agriculture systems can balance staple food needs with long-term planetary health by integrating perennial crops to create a more sustainable and secure food future.

Perennial grain crops can help ensure clean and sustainable water supplies that are critical for communities and a resilient and productive agricultural system.

Regenerative agriculture

Perennial grain crops hold the potential for a truly regenerative agriculture in which humanity and nature flourish together as a collaborative system to heal the environment, grow abundant food, and create economic growth for farmers and their communities.

Case study

Perennial Rice Achieves “Moon Landing” Breakthrough

One of the most important reports in modern agriculture. I believe this will catalyze a generation of new discoveries by scientists who have not yet been involved in pursuing perennial traits in staple grain crops. This research marks a distinct new line of possibilities for global food production from the nearly 10,000-year single-track reliance on annual grain crops.

Jerry Glover

National Geographic Society Explorer

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