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Seeds for Needs – India: a pathway to diversification
Bioversity International's 'Seeds for Needs' in India researches how crop diversity can help minimize the climate change risks with the support of more than 25,000 local farmers, six of whom shared their experience of the initiative.
Bioversity International's initiative 'Seeds for Needs' in India includes over 25,000 farmers, most of whom…
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Community seedbanks: securing diversity for climate change adaptation
Bioversity International’s policy scientist Ronnie Vernooy explains to Degrees of Latitude why community seedbanks are important for farming systems’ resilience, and how they can be supported.
Bioversity International’s policy scientist Ronnie Vernooy explains to Degrees of Latitude why community seedbanks are important for farming systems…
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Se non la usi la perdi! Ecco perché dobbiamo sostenere la biodiversità agricola
In occasione della Giornata Mondiale per la Diversità Biologica, Ann Tutwiler passa il testimone del suo blog a Pietro Sebastiani, Direttore Generale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo in Italia. Sebastiani spiega perché l'agrobiodiversità è alla base dei sistemi alimentari, in che modo contribuisce all'economia italiana e la rende uno dei paesi più…
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Participatory research is a serious game
On a warm afternoon in a small farming village in Honduras, half a dozen farmers sit with a visitor from an NGO they’ve worked with before. They’re there to discuss the farmers’ priorities to improve their main crop, beans. What do the farmers need most? What should the bean breeders focus on?
On a warm afternoon in a small farming village in Honduras, half a dozen…
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Newly launched CGIAR Research Portfolio tackles growing complexity of agricultural development challenges
CGIAR has launched its new research portfolio, comprised of 11 Research Programs and 3 Platforms, that represents the second generation of CGIAR’s multidimensional work streams.
CGIAR has launched its new research portfolio, comprised of 11 Research Programs and 3 Platforms, that represents the second…
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How does gender influence banana disease management?
New research by Bioversity International is studying how women and men control and manage banana cropping systems in Burundi, and how this can influence the adoption of technologies that can help farmers manage a deadly banana disease.
In a blog on GREAT website, Bioversity International’s scientist François Iradukunda talks about his new research in…
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30 years of gender and forests
Currently, there is much interest in mainstreaming gender in natural resource management, including forestry. The new Earthscan Reader on Gender and Forests, co-edited by our gender specialist Marlène Elias provides a collection of key articles on gender and forests published over the last 30 years.
Currently, there is much interest in mainstreaming gender in natural resource…
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Evaluation of cassava and bean germplasm in East Timor
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/56064
Publication year
2003
Authors
Howeler, Reinhardt H.
Palmer, B
Hartojo, K.
Piggin, Colin
Full Citation
Howeler, Reinhardt H.; Palmer, Brian; Hartojo, Koes; Piggin, Colin. 2003. Evaluation of cassava and bean germplasm in East Timor. In:…
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Agrobiodiversity Index – A varied diet for investors
Clarmondial is supporting Bioversity International on the design of financial instruments around the Agrobiodiversity Index. By linking scientific research to risk assessment tools and funding mechanisms, investors can catalyze change and shift markets towards resilient agricultural systems.
Clarmondial is supporting Bioversity International on the design…
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Integrated systems research for sustainable smallholder agriculture
A new publication details achievements and lessons learned from the Central Mekong, offering insights and recommendations that could support integrated agricultural systems research both in the Mekong and elsewhere.
A new publication details achievements and lessons learned from working with upland smallholder farmers in the Central Mekong.…
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Small farms are essential for food security, study says
As the world moves towards large-scale plantation agriculture, it's crucial poor countries protect small farmers to meet the food needs of a growing global population, says the first The Lancet Planetary Health issue featuring Bioversity International's Jessica Fanzo and Roseline Remans.
As the world moves towards large-scale plantation agriculture, it's…
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Increasing access to quality and diverse seed: A journey to the Kiziba community seedbank
As the threat of climate change looms large over the agriculture sector and food security, many farmers in Uganda are beginning to appreciate the importance of seed diversity. Recently a team of farmers from Bunyoro region traveled to the Kiziba community seed bank to study how it operates and take some valuable lessons back home with them…
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Connecting landscapes with ecological corridors will benefit people, nature and business
To guarantee productive, profitable farms today and tomorrow, we need agrobiodiversity at the ecosystem, agronomic and genomic level to work together, says M. Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International, in World Business Council for Sustainable Development and Syngenta's newly-released Landscape Connectivity: A call to action…
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Obstacles to gender-smart fertilizer use hurt livelihoods, scientists say
Compiling gender-inclusive data could help scientists understand how to help improve nitrogen fertilizer application practices among smallholder farmers, according to a new research paper.
Compiling gender-inclusive data could help scientists understand how to help smallholder farmers improve nitrogen fertilizer application practices,…
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Food and nutrition are moving to the city
Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International, welcomes the 2017 Global Food Policy Report, published today by the International Food Policy Research Institute, and draws attention to the shift in the burden of malnutrition from rural areas to cities.
For too long, we have traded off calories for nutrition in our quest to end world hunger. While…
