Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Bringing landraces back home, 50 years later
Nutrition, health and food securityHalf a century earlier, scientists collected and preserved samples of maize landraces in Morelos, Mexico. Now, descendants of those farmers were able to get back their ancestral maize seeds and, with them, a piece of their family history.
Tracing maize landraces, 50 years later
Environmental health and biodiversityScientists track down the families in Morelos, Mexico, who donated maize landraces to CIMMYT in 1966-67. Would they still be cultivating them?