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Crop diversity: the debate that truly matters for food security and sustainability
Huffington Post blog highlights Bioversity International's research on neglected and underutilized crops in a recent blog 'GMOs or No GMOs - Is That Really the Question?'. As the GMO debate unravels, it is clear that feeding additional 2.3 billion people by 2050 will have to largely depend on crop diversity.
A recent Huffington…
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Bioversity International dusts off plant genetic resources newsletters from the 1950s
Though no longer published, the Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter was one of Bioversity International’s flagship publications. Now the full set of the Newsletter from its inception in 1957 to the last issue in 2008, is available to all online.
Though no longer published, the Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter was one…
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Not just any apricot in the fruit basket - Understanding the connections between agricultural biodiversity, human health and nutrition
Connecting Global Priorities: Biodiversity and Human Health, co-published by the CBD and WHO, brings together the state of knowledge on how biodiversity and human health are linked. Danny Hunter, Senior Scientist, Bioversity International, explains.
A new book, Connecting…
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The African Great Lakes region to be the testing ground for NARITA bananas
Bioversity International is coordinating the field testing of new high-yielding and disease-resistant bananas as part of a 5-year initiative to increase food security and improve smallholder livelihoods in the African Great Lakes region.
Bioversity International is coordinating the field testing of new high-yielding and disease-…
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Why biodiversity is key to global food security
A paradigm shift is needed in the way we approach food production and consumption to ensure sustainable global food security and healthy food systems and diets. Taking a ‘business as usual’ approach will only increase health and environmental costs.
A paradigm shift is needed in the way we approach food production and consumption to ensure sustainable global…
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Tracking proteins in farmers' varieties of durum wheat in Ethiopia
Durum wheat is a common crop in Ethiopia where many local varieties are grown. Mr Basazen Fantahun, an Ethiopian, has been awarded Bioversity International’s Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship to study the quality of 35 farmers' varieties of durum wheat used for pasta making.
Durum wheat, a basic ingredient of pasta, couscous and bread, is…
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Abdou-Salam Ouédraogo Fellow to map African rosewood genetic diversity in Ghana
The knowledge gap in genetic information on remaining populations of African rosewood will soon be filled through a new research project, supported by the Abdou-Salam Ouédraogo (ASO) Fellowship, awarded yearly by Bioversity International to a young forest genetic resources scientist in sub-Saharan Africa.
African rosewood, a…
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Why agricultural biodiversity must be embedded into sustainable development policies
On the International Day for Biological Diversity, M. Ann Tutwiler hands over her blog to special guest Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity.
On the 2015 International Day for Biological Diversity – with a theme of Biodiversity for Sustainable Development, M. Ann Tutwiler…
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Achieving agricultural carbon neutrality by 2050
Five Latin American countries contributing towards achieving agricultural carbon neutrality by 2050.
Latin America and the Caribbean is recognized as one of the region most vulnerable to climate change and variability. It is mainly affected by prolonged periods of drought and extreme precipitation, increasing flooding and the…
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Bio-innovations genome-edited crops for climate-smart food systems
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120347
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As growing populations, changing diets, and climate change affect growing conditions for crops, our agriculture and food systems must increase production and productivity to ensure access to healthy and diverse diets for all. The expanding demands on agriculture and food systems must be met without increasing pressure on the environment, and while accomplishing other development goals and objectives. Addressing this complex…
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Scaling banana bacterial wilt management through single diseased stem removal in the Great Lakes Region
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120348
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Xanthomonas wilt (XW) of banana caused by Xanthomonas vasicola pv. musacearum (Xvm) is an important emerging and non-curable infectious disease which can cause up to 100% yield loss. At the start of the XW epidemic, complete uprooting of diseased mats (CMU) was recommended. There was little adoption of CMU, especially by women farmers, because it was labor-intensive and it sacrificed…
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Necesidades de investigación futuras
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/55151
Publication year
2000
Authors
Morales, Francisco José
Full Citation
Morales, Francisco José. 2000. Necesidades de investigación futuras. In: Morales, Francisco José (ed.). El mosaico dorado y otras enfermedades del frijol común causadas por germinivirus transmitidos por mosca blanca en la América…
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AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge Winners
Claudia Zaccari
CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform and IMPACT Lab Announce the AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge Winners.
Start-ups Across the Globe Provide Impetus for Morocco’s Agri-tech Sector.
Back in March 2022, the CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform, the World Bank, IMPACT Lab, and partners launched…
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Participatory diagnostic toolkits and crop improvement approaches: participatory methods to assess and use plant genetic diversity in the field.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120515
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In both developing and developed countries, there is increasing in terest in adopting more inclusive and problem-solving participatory re search methods. While there is a wealth of methods and toolkits for con ducting participatory research in the form of scientific articles, books, and manuals, this manual aims to provide a source of information…
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Home gardens are “living genebanks” that sustain livelihoods in Central Asia
Central Asia is the point of origin for a wide diversity of fruit and nut trees; including many local and wild varieties that have not been scientifically documented. A new study has analyzed the ongoing role of home gardens in conserving this agrobiodiversity, which has provided a food safety net in times of food insecurity…
