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In a global food crisis, Africa's opportunity for a climate-smart future
Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA), the World Bank and Columbia University's Climate School host a hybrid event for Climate Week NYC 2022.
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The Forum, 601 W 125th St, New York…
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Challenging barriers to capturing accurate data on food intake in Kenyan populations
Part 2 of a series by: Irene Induli, Yasu Morimoto, Patrick Maundu and Erika Eliana Mosquera Echeverry
Do you think you will be able to remember everything you ate and drank in the last 24 hours? And if you did, do you think you could tell exactly how much of one thing or another you ate or drank, including the water and ingredients used to…
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Agronomía y fisiología de las especies de Brachiaria
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/55294
Publication year
1998
Authors
Fisher, Myles J.
Kerridge, Peter C.
Full Citation
Fisher, Myles J.; Kerridge, Peter C. 1998. Agronomía y fisiología de las especies de Brachiaria. In: Miles, John W; Maass, Brigitte L; Valle, Cacilda Borges do; Kumble, Vrinda (eds.).…
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Envisioning net-zero food systems: A roadmap to achieving net-zero emissions
A new study in Nature Portfolio presents a vision for food systems in 2050 and a roadmap to get there.
By Sadie Shelton
A new assessment of over 60 scenarios based on current low-emission practices shows that realizing net-zero food systems will require widescale adoption of new technologies in the…
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What was left out of the founding myth of the Green Revolution?
One of the founding narratives of the Green Revolution (a push towards technology-driven modernization of agriculture starting over 50 years ago) has been found to be false, according to a recent analysis by Alliance researcher Jacob van Etten.
By: Andrew J. Wight
The Green Revolution is often credited with…
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Scientists unlock secrets of Ethiopia's superfood in race to save it from warming climate
Ethiopia's native staple food grain teff is at risk, with 80% of production to be hit by higher temperatures soon if not protected. For the first time, scientists have mapped thousands of the crop's varieties to fast-track efforts to save it.
Teff, an ancient grain originally from Ethiopia, is a staple crop for 50…
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Back to school: Diversity for Restoration
A new tool and a workshop in northern Peru lead the way for improved forest restoration planning in the Americas and beyond.
Degraded tropical dry forest landscape in San Vicente de Paúl, La Libertad, Peru. A local community member and his cow pass through in an area invaded by grasses as a result of a fire. Credit: Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT…
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Going against nature
In his latest blog, Juan Lucas Restrepo talks about the importance of identifying collective solutions to diversify our agriculture and thus fight crop diseases such as the dreaded TR4, which originated in South East Asia and is now hitting banana farms in Colombia.
In August, the Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario (ICA) confirmed the devastating news for the banana sector in Latin America…
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Cassava agronomy research in China
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81969
Abstract
Through cooperation with CIAT, national programs in China have paid more and more attention to cassava agronomy research and a lot of progress has been made. This paper describes briefly the most common cropping systems and production practices presently used by farmers. It also reviews the results of research on soil/crop management, with emphasis on soil fertility maintenance and…
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Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health
On the International Day for Biological Diversity, Juan Lucas Restrepo, Director General of Bioversity International, reflects on the importance of agrobiodiversity as the foundation of food systems and the need to promote urgent changes that stop its loss.
Today marks the International Day for Biological Diversity. It will not be a happy celebration but rather a day to call for reflection and promote urgent changes that stop the massive loss of biodiversity, a daily phenomenon which…
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Arrivederci – Ann Tutwiler's Farewell Blog
As Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International prepares to step down, she reflects on the last six years and the shifts in international discourse around agrobiodiversity in her last blog for ‘DG Dialogues’.
I started ‘DG Dialogues' during my first weeks as Director General back in 2013, inspired by a field trip to our research sites in India. Bihar was suffering from severe drought. The longed-for monsoon rains were late and the crops in the fields were desiccated.…
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The Great Food Transformation
Launched today, the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems sets out proposed global scientific targets to drive the transformation needed to secure human and planetary health.
The way we currently consume and produce our food in the Anthropocene – the current geological age where human activity is the dominant driver of changes on earth – is one of the greatest health and environmental challenges of the 21st century. More than 820 million people have insufficient food…
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Untold Tale of the Tepary
This holiday season, Bioversity International tells the story of the nutritious and resilient, yet small and underutilized tepary bean, and the studies done to bring it back to the dinner tables of farmers at risk of food and nutrition insecurity.
Some traditions are worth reviving. As the festive season approaches, many people around the world tend to revive their culture’s traditions, particularly when it comes to the dinner table. To welcome the New Year, ‘lucky’ foods such as grapes,…
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Hedge your bets in resilient landscape restoration
Bioversity International launched the 'Trees for Seeds: Resilient forest restoration' initiative at the Global Landscapes Forum one month ago in Nairobi. Christopher Kettle, Science Domain Leader, Forest Genetic Resources and Restoration, reports.
Pardon the pun but hedging our bets with global land restoration is exactly what we need to be doing if we don’t want to bury billions of dollars in a failed investment. On the last two days of August I participated in the Global…
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Call for help to map conservation priorities for Asian tree species
Unsustainable extraction, changing land uses and climate threaten thousands of socio-economically valuable tree species across Asia. A new regional initiative provides practitioners tools for deciding where to focus conservation and restoration efforts – and needs your help.
The challenge: valuable tree species are under threat
Unsustainable extraction, along with changes in land uses and the climate threaten thousands of socio-economically valuable tree…
