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Preserving heirloom potatoes with science

March 3, 2025

The Andes' bitter potatoes: the humble key to the future of agriculture? Peruvian biologist Nataly Canales thinks so. But she focuses on ethics, not profit, and asks: Who owns knowledge about plants?

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Katharina Schantz, a white woman with long red harid, wears a black rollneck and jeans as she stands in the DW building in Bonn, Germany.
Katharina Schantz Multimedia journalist with expertise in climate and environment reporting