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New guidelines for use of agricultural biodiversity in climate change adaptation planning
Bioversity International researchers Michael Halewood and Isabel López Noriega write about a set of guidelines that have recently been endorsed by the UN FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
The Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Integration of Genetic Diversity into National Climate Change…
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A step closer to mainstreaming biodiversity for improved nutrition and health
Draft guidelines to mainstream biodiversity into policies, programmes, national and regional action plans were approved at the 15th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, taking place this week in Italy.
Draft guidelines for mainstreaming biodiversity into policies, programmes and national…
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IPBES to assess biodiversity and ecosystem services of the world's regions
Agriculture has now become an integral part of the new assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), whose 2015-2017 work plan was approved at Bonn, Germany last week.
Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) brought together 130 government…
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Adapting with crop diversity – an interview on climate change
An interview with Bioversity International scientist Mauricio Bellon on the chapter: 'Climate change and on-farm conservation of crop landraces in centres of diversity', now available open access.
While the 15th session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is being held in Rome this week, we took a moment to sit with…
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Reaching Across the Metaphorical Divide: Understanding Sustainable Diets and Food Systems
What does it mean to have a 'sustainable food system' and how do we get there? Bruce Cogill, Programme Leader, Diet Diversity for Nutrition and Health, Bioversity International discusses in a guest blog for the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative.
What does it mean to have a 'sustainable food system'…
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15th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
The Commission on Genetic Resources will hold its Fifteenth Regular Session from 19-23 January 2015 at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Italy. Find out how Bioversity International is participating.
The Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture will hold its Fifteenth Regular Session from 19-23…
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Linking ex situ and in situ conservation in Nepal
Learn more about Bioversity International's work with our partners LI-BIRD to conserve agricultural biodiversity through the setup of community seedbanks and linking these local systems to the national genebank.
Nepal is home to over 100 community seedbanks who together help conserve more than 1000 local varieties of cereals, vegetables, legumes, root crops…
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Procuring biodiversity for schools as part of government plan to improve food and nutrition in Brazil
A report on the latest activities in Brazil from the Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Initiative including a look at an innovative school feeding and procurement programme.
A report on the latest activities in Brazil from the Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Initiative including a look at an…
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New publication describes ancient African tree Baobab
Descriptor list of baobab will help to increase the domestication, cultivation and use of the products of the African baobab for improving nutrition and enhancing livelihoods
The baobab tree is an important, nutritious food source for local people in many African countries, and it has the potential to increase the incomes of local communities, particularly…
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Supporting international efforts to pool and conserve crop genetic resources in times of radical legal change
Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and the editors of Intellectual Property Rights, published by Oxford University Press, said that it is urgent that the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is fully implemented.
“It is urgent to fully implement the international 'quasi…
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Gender-responsive participatory research on Native Fruit Trees in India
Read how Bioversity International and partners are doing gender-responsive participatory research in the India via this post on the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature blog.
“For the first time in our village, women of different ethnic and caste groups decided to form a women’s group called Matrabhoomi (Mothers’ land) and…
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Nutrition from innovation and taste from waste
Featured in this month's Farming Matters magazine, Bioversity International partners LI-BIRD and Princeton intern Jacob Zucker tell us about how homegardens provide nutrition to households in Nepal.
From a situation of widespread undernutrition, consuming fresh vegetables all year round has now become a reality for many Nepali households thanks to their…
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Cultivo de tejidos
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81630
Abstract
During 1981, the efforts to use meristem-culture methods have continued, together with thermotherapy for recovering healthy clones. Frog skin disease was eradicated up to 100 percent in different cassava clones during various propagation cycles through the culture of small meristem tips. A routine "cleaning-up" program consists of: (1) disinfestation of stakes containing dormant buds and…
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Linking local plans to the big picture - an experience from Fiji
How can we bring together the large-scale and the local scale? Read this experience of using resilience indicators in Fiji in a guest post by Bioversity International on the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature blog.
When we talk about large-scale landscape initiatives, one of the biggest risks is losing out on the detail. How do we continue…
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Fruit trees key to restoring degraded land in Central Asia
Bioversity researchers are working with national partners to restore degraded lands in Central Asia with native fruit tree species. Learn more in this blog post on the Agriculture & Ecosystems blog.
A burst of green brightens up what is otherwise a barren, rocky landscape in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Gulmira Sharsheeva and her husband…
