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Colombia y la COVID-19: ¿crisis u oportunidad?
Como país de ingreso medio ubicado en el trópico, Colombia no es el primer país en el que muchos piensan cuando se habla de problemas de seguridad alimentaria. Colombia ocupa el puesto 43 de 113 países en el Índice Global de Seguridad Alimentaria, y su situación es igual o mejor que la de muchos de sus vecinos sudamericanos. Por otro lado, existen grandes desigualdades en Colombia y el…
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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Farmers' Income and Food Security In The Globalized Cassava Value Chains In Cambodia and Vietnam
Quang Binh, Vietnam, cassava processing. Farmers are trained in improved crop and soil fertility management.
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©2015CIAT/GeorginaSmith
Vanya Slavchevska, Jonathan Newby, Erik Delaquis, Sophia Braddel…
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How Turkana's communities are cooking up the shift to healthier, more biodiverse diets
By adopting kitchen gardens to diversify diets and livelihoods, a Kenyan community is transforming its agricultural landscape and fortunes.
By: Francis Oduor
The changing landscape can be noticed by anyone, even newcomers. Alice Lolemo, one of the project beneficiaries, explains…
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Crop ontology: integration of standard variables
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/78758
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The Crop Ontology (CO, http://www.cropontology.org/) is a resource of the Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP, http://integratedbreeding.net/) providing breeders with crop specific terms for fieldbook edition and data annotation. Until Mai 2015, a plant phenotype was annotated with 3 CO identifiers for the trait, the method and the scale, respectively. Yet, breeders’…
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Understanding gender dynamics in the input segment of upgraded value chains for root crops in Vietnam
Harvesting improved cassava varieties in Dong Nai province, Vietnam.
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©2015CIAT/GeorginaSmith
Vanya Slavchevska, Nozomi Kawarazuka, Mary Helen Brighton
Until the early 1980s in South East Asia (SEA), root crops were important for…
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Fostering inclusion in participatory approaches
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Foundation for Ecological Society
In a new paper and guide, we share tips to promote inclusive facilitation of participatory environmental management processes.
By: Haley Zaremba and Marlène Elias
While challenges like climate change, land degradation, and biodiversity loss are…
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The journey towards sustainable food systems in Uganda: Engaging the research and scientific community
The Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century (GCP21) second conference in Kampala, Uganda.
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©2012CIAT/NeilPalmer
Beatrice Ekesa
Last year’s United Nations Food Systems Summit provided a historic opportunity to empower multi-level multi…
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Integrating climate action in microinsurance in the Philippines
Coconut seedlings in a community nursery. Raising seedlings of choice varieties provides a stable source of supply and an income for villages that specialize in this enterprise.
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©Bioversity International\P. Batugal
28 Jan 2022
Climate Action: Social…
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Webinar: Climate-Smart Investment Portfolios for the Southern Plains in Jamaica
Jamaica’s Southern Plains have the potential to be the breadbasket of Jamaica. These fertile grounds could protect the Caribbean island nation from global food price shocks and reliance on disruption-prone imports.
01 Feb 2022
There is only one problem: The plains are a victim of…
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Bioversity International Gender and Social Inclusion Strategy
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/72913
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This gender and social inclusion strategy is designed to support the sustainable and equitable delivery of Bioversity International’s institutional vision and mission. It will promote gender-responsive and socially inclusive practices into all research-for-development practices in the organization, to contribute to narrowing the gender and equity gaps in the…
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Coordinated conservation and restoration critical to save Asia’s threatened native trees
Current protected area networks in South and Southeast Asia fail to conserve socio-economically important native tree species and their seed sources, according to a new region-wide threat assessment. The study’s findings highlight priority areas and synergies for coordinating conservation and restoration of critical habitat for these species.…
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responsAbility launches climate-smart food systems investment solution with KfW as anchor investor and in partnership with the CGIAR
With the initial support of GIZ and with KfW as anchor investor, responsAbility and CGIAR have partnered to launch the first science-based impact investing solution targeting food systems transformation. The aim is to provide long-term expansion debt to innovative businesses operating in the food…
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CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform and World Bank partner to launch Agri-Tech4Morocco Innovation Challenge
Claudia Zaccari
The challenge joins forces to spur youth entrepreneurship for climate-smart agriculture.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its sixth report in mid-2021, which called for urgent climate action to reverse the threats…
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Looking for water in Jamaica’s Southern Plains
Sean Mattson
The Caribbean island’s breadbasket needs water. When major irrigation projects come online soon as expected, farmers, government and scientists hope to make the region reach its productive potential as it deals with intensifying effects of climate change…
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CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform & IFSS Portal offer startups a self-guided acceleration program
Resources made available by the Accelerate for Impact Platform and Innovative Food Systems Solutions portal help innovators, like the applicants to the 2021 Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge, scale their solutions for positive impact.
On January 17, the CGIAR Accelerate…
