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Food Fair: An Initiative For Promotion Of Traditional Food Products
Nepal's Food Fair 2016, the first of its kind, showcased recipes made from locally grown crops and explored the potential these crops have for consumers.
Bioversity International collaborated with a series of partners to establish ‘Food Fair 2016’ in Nepal. The objective for the food fair was to raise awareness about local foods, and in…
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Capturing crop wild relative and landrace diversity
New book by CABI, with contributions from Bioversity International, reviews all aspects of use and conservation of crop wild relative and landrace diversity as a basis for crop improvement and future food security.
A new book ‘Enhancing Crop Genepool Use - Capturing wild relative and landrace diversity for crop improvement’ shows the progress made in…
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Q is for quinoa: going with the diversity grain
Bioversity International scientists Adam Drucker and Marleni Ramirez highlight in the Economist the importance of going with the diversity grain when it comes to ensuring Peruvian farmers can make healthy food choices that are compatible with living in a megabiodiverse country.
Bioversity International scientists Adam Drucker and…
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Learning from the Andeans and safeguarding crop diversity in mountain communities in China
International workshop brings authorities together to discuss how landscape approaches can be key for climate adaptation and poverty alleviation in China.
Bioversity International’s scientists, Ronnie Vernooy and Zhang Zongwen, report from China about a workshop held last month in the province of Yunnan, where one of…
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Addressing the weather data paradox head-on in Guatemala and Mali
Weather data is vital for climate science, but it is often inaccessible. To solve this, weather stations are being installed in Mali and Guatemala.
Poor availability of weather data is a major problem for testing sustainable options for climate adaptation. To address this issue, weather stations are being installed in eight villages in Mali and…
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Saving the Pacific’s coconuts
Government representatives from Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Samoa are meeting this week to launch a mission, coordinated by Bioversity International and COGENT, to protect Pacific coconut diversity from climate change and other threats.
Government representatives from Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Samoa are meeting in Lautoka, Fiji, this week with other Asia-Pacific and international…
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Farmers get to work to establish vital community seedbanks in Nepal
After two earthquakes devastated parts of Nepal one year ago, Devendra Gauchan, National Project Manager and Bhuwon Sthapit, Senior Scientist, Bioversity International, send their fourth report on a training programme to establish much-needed community seedbanks in the Himalayan region.
One year after two devastating earthquakes killed and…
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New insights into banana genetics
Mathieu Rouard
New study by Bioversity International scientist Julie Sardos and colleagues, published in PLOS ONE, shows that genome-wide association studies are feasible in banana.
New study by Bioversity International scientist Julie Sardos and colleagues, published in PLOS ONE, shows that genome-wide association studies are feasible in banana.
Banana, one…
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Pamiri farmers and their traditions take centre stage in international cookbook awards
Book on the rich cultural and agricultural history of the Afghan and Tajik Pamirs wins the Gourmand cookbook awards – the most prestigious and largest award in the culinary world.
Bioversity International is proud to celebrate the success of ethnobotanist and former Bioversity International scientist Frederick van…
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Piloting a gender-responsive tool for assessing the poverty impacts of value chain development
Last month, field researchers from three parts of India participated in a training workshop on a new gender-responsive methodology for assessing the poverty impacts of value chain development – 5Caps-G. Three Bioversity International scientists report back.
Last month, field researchers from three parts of India…
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G7 leaders’ declaration on food security and nutrition
Empowering women, improving nutrition through a people-centered approach and ensuring sustainability and resilience within agriculture and food systems are at the centre of the G7 leaders declaration on food security and nutrition.
Empowering women, improving nutrition through a people-centered approach and ensuring sustainability and resilience within…
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New publication reveals that farmers are the best source for conservation practices
How do we conserve the amazing diversity of tropical fruit trees in a way that brings benefits to the people who look after them? Why don’t we ask the farmers? That’s exactly what the researchers and editors of Tropical Fruit Tree Diversity: Good practices for in situ and on-farm conservation decided to do.
How do we…
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The first International Agrobiodiversity Congress calls for abstracts
The 1st International Agrobiodiversity Congress will take place from 6 - 9 November 2016 in New Delhi, India, as a platform for stakeholders to share ideas on the sustainable management of agricultural biodiversity. Deadline for abstracts is 30 June, 2016.
The 1st International Agrobiodiversity Congress will take place from 6-9 November…
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Farmers’ knowledge + scientific knowledge + biodiversity = sustainable food systems
On the International Day for Biological Diversity, Gerda Verburg, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN and Coordinator of the ‘Scaling Up Nutrition’ Movement, explains why farmers’ knowledge is a vital asset when it comes to planning, implementing and scaling-up agricultural research-for-development efforts.…
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Bioversity International Annual Report 2015 published today
Read our 2015 Annual Report for research highlights on how agricultural biodiversity nourishes people and sustains the planet.
In 2015, at the United Nations in New York, countries agreed on the Sustainable Development Goals; in Paris at the Climate Summit, they reached an agreement on Climate Change; and at the Convention on Biological Diversity,…
