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Joyce Takaindisa
Research Team Lead & Regional Lead for Climate Security - East Africa
Joyce Takaindisa is a Migration and Climate Security Specialist and Regional Lead for East Africa at the Alliance for Bioversity International and CIAT. She specializes in qualitative research with expertise in migration, displacement, and climate change, focusing on the nexus between climate change, migration, human mobility, and security. Her work aims to promote evidence for peace through research and policy programming…
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Diana Katherine Quintero Cano
Research Associate
Diana Katherine Quintero Cano is an economist with experience in the identification, design, and implementation of learning and evaluation studies, as well as data analysis, report preparation, and scientific writing. She is part of the Applied Economics and Impact Evaluation team at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT.
Her work focuses on Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Impact Assessment (MELIA), with particular expertise in designing studies…
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Sakile Kudita
Team Leader, Country Representative for Zimbabwe
Sakile Kudita is an agriculture, food systems, and nutrition professional with more than 20 years of experience in agricultural research, innovation scaling, seed systems development, market development, value chain strengthening, and nutrition-sensitive agriculture. As Team Leader and Country Representative for Zimbabwe, she leads the Alliance's work to strengthen resilient, inclusive, and market-oriented agrifood systems through strategic…
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Ana Maria Paez Valencia
Gender and Social Impact Project Leader, Country Representative for Peru
Ana Maria is a gender specialist with extensive experience in gender integration and gender research across themes and regions. Her work focuses on the design and implementation of gender-responsive approaches that foster equitable benefits, and the promotion of gender-transformative approaches in the areas of land restoration, food security, resilience, and value chains, among others. She previously worked as a…
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Manuel Moreno
Research Associate
Manuel Moreno is a socioeconomist with expertise in gender and impact research in agriculture. He is currently a research associate under the Performance, Innovation, and Strategic Analysis for Impact (PISA4Impact) lever. He has experience in qualitative and quantitative methodologies, approaching gender role differences, the use of climate information services and impact assessment in agriculture. Manuel holds an MD in economics from the National University of La Plata, Argentina…
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The Alliance at the Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB64)
The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) of the UNFCCC will convene for their 64th sessions (SB64) at the World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB) in Bonn, Germany, from 8 to 18 June 2026.
World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB) in Bonn, Germany
08 - 18 Jun 2026…
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« Ouvrir les yeux » : Les banques communautaires de semences au cœur des zones d’agrobiodiversité du Pérou
Ronnie Vernooy, Marleni Ramirez
Des organisations de recherche, de conservation et de développement au Pérou unissent leurs efforts pour mettre en place des banques communautaires de semences et renforcer la conservation ainsi que la gestion durable de la diversité des cultures dans les Zones d’…
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Si la science existait, pourquoi a-t-il fallu autant de temps pour qu’elle parvienne aux agriculteur.rice.s ?
Anastacia Wanjiru, Alex Nduah Nderi
Entre 2021 et 2025, l’initiative AICCRA (Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa) a travaillé dans six pays africains ainsi qu’au sein de deux programmes régionaux afin de combler le fossé entre la science du climat et les agriculteur.rice.s, en…
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Soroti, Uganda: WAWE project kicks off to turn waste into wealth
Rachel Kibui
Special thanks to Christine Chege, Peter Chege Cosmas Lutomia, Mordecai Mkiza, Grace Ochino, Marcella Magara, Esther Wambugu
Nestled in eastern Uganda, approximately 290 kilometres northeast of Kampala, Soroti City is one of the country's fastest-growing urban centres. As the commercial and administrative hub of the Teso…
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Gracsious Maviza
Scientist I, Country Representative for South Africa
Gracsious Maviza is a Gender and Migration Climate Security Scientist and the CGIAR Climate Security Regional Lead for the Southern Africa Team at the Alliance of Bioversity Internation and CIAT under the Climate Action Lever. She also serves as the Alliance Country Representative for South Africa, representing the Alliance’s strategic interests and partnerships within the country…
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Arwen Bailey
Knowledge Sharing Advisor
Arwen Bailey is an Alliance knowledge-sharing and science communications specialist, and manager of the Knowledge Sharing Unit. Her passion is strategically connecting people and connecting ideas, and increasing access to information and opportunities for dialogue inside and outside the Alliance in order to foster new knowledge. Arwen has an MSc in Systems Thinking in Practice (MSc). Her systems thinking practice informs her work, providing tools and methods for exploring…
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Traditional crops for household food security and factors associated with on-farm diversity in the Mountains of Nepal
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance (Bioversity-CIAT Alliance)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/109041
Abstract
Traditional crops play an important role in household food security and livelihood needs of mountain communities, while at the same time safeguarding crop biodiversity for future generations. This study aims to analyse socioeconomic, farmspecificagro-ecological and market factors influencing cultivation…
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Morphological characterisation of East African AAB and AA dessert bananas (Musa spp.)
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/42417
Publication year
2011
Authors
Onyango, M.
Karamura, D.
Keeley, S.
Manshardt, R.
Haymer, D.
Full Citation
Onyango, M.; Karamura, D.; Keeley, S.; Manshardt, R.; Haymer, D. -2011-Morphological…
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Molecular characterization of genetic diversity of underutilized crops: buckwheat as an example
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/42371
Publication year
2013
Authors
Zongwen Zhang
Lijuan Zhao
Full Citation
Zongwen Zhang; Lijuan Zhao -2013-Molecular characterization of genetic diversity of underutilized crops: buckwheat as an example. -ISHS 979-p. 407-419…
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Modelling an intensive banana cropping system in Ecuador using a Bayesian Network
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/42406
Publication year
2011
Authors
Nolivos, I.
Biesen, L. van
Swennen, Rony L.
Full Citation
Nolivos, I.; Van Biesen, L ; Swennen, R. -2011-Modelling an intensive banana cropping system in Ecuador using a Bayesian Network -ISHS…
