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A global community seedbank platform
Genetic Resources Policy Specialist, Ronnie Vernooy, discusses how Bioversity International and partners tackle the need for greater connectivity among community seedbanks.
Community seedbanks have been around for about 30 years. They have been designed and implemented to conserve, restore, revitalize, strengthen and improve local seed systems, and have been especially,…
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Sharing best practices for banana germplasm conservation and exchange
Latin American and Caribbean banana collection curators came together for the MusaNet Regional Workshop on Musa Characterization and Documentation
Banana (Musa) diversity is conserved in more than 60 ex situ collections worldwide located mostly in banana producing countries. To ensure the long-term conservation on a cooperative basis,…
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Bioversity International and CIAT sign Memorandum of Understanding that establishes the Alliance foundations
Communiqué n. 5 – Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) continue to make progress toward the establishment of an Alliance focused on tackling key challenges facing our world today: malnutrition in all its forms; climate change adaptation and mitigation; declining…
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Toolkit Launch: Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition
The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Initiative shares a new open-access guide that collects lessons learned from four partner countries to help others harness agricultural biodiversity to transform the food system for development, food security and nutrition.
Throughout its six years of experience in Brazil, Kenya, Sri Lanka and…
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Which are the right crops to enable food security under future climates?
A new paper sets out to determine if crop-specific research investments can be prioritized to anticipate climate change impact on crops and enable the production of more nutritious food.
As world leaders at the UN's 24th Conference on Climate Change in Poland grapple with how to implement agreements made in Paris 2015 to reduce…
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A Course in Nepal on Plant Genetic Resources and Resilient Seed Systems for Sustainable Food Security
Francesca Grazioli, Research Support Officer for the Cacao Genetic Resources Team, Bioversity International, reports on a training on securing sustainable food security that grounded theory with practice and provided her with tools she can implement in her work on cacao.
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Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Production Landscapes
The recently released 'Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Production Landscapes' features Bioversity International's contributions to supporting agricultural biodiversity as it seeks to integrate biodiversity considerations into policies, strategies and practices.
Bioversity International has been collaborating with the Global…
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A food security monitoring and early warning system for Guatemala
Supported by Bioversity International and CCAFS, the Guatemala Secretariat for Food and Nutrition Security implemented a digital platform to improve the management of and response to climate-related seasonal hunger at local scale.
Although seasonal hunger is a recurring and well-known problem that affects subsistence farm families in Guatemala…
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How will we finance the New Deal for Nature?
The CBD estimates up to US$440 billion is needed annually to meet commitments in the post-2020 UN Biodiversity Framework yet the current annual spend budget is only US$52 billion. How do we fill this huge financial shortfall?
Gianpiero Menza, Private Sector Engagement Coordinator, Bioversity International reports on how financial innovations could help pay the…
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Bioversity International and CIAT continue to make exciting progress in establishing an Alliance
Communiqué n.4 – Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) advance in defining the vision, mission and strategic objectives of the Alliance, and in selecting the new Director General of Bioversity/CEO-Designate of the Alliance.
Bioversity International and the…
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How is agrobiodiversity faring in Peru?
Did you know that Peru is one of the main centres of crop diversity in the world? A recent study conducted by Bioversity International sets the stage for further actions to protect, conserve and boost agrobiodiversity use in the country to nourish people and sustain the planet.
With 184 native domesticated plant species and hundreds of varieties, Peru is one of the…
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Strengthening farmers' seed systems in China
Dr. Yiching Song, Senior Researcher at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Dr. Ronnie Vernooy, Senior Scientist at Bioversity International, visited Aohan, Inner Mongolia, with their team to investigate the use of traditional farmer crop varieties.
Bioversity International and the Center for Chinese Agricultural…
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Bioversity International featured at Africa’s biggest gathering of nutritionists
Bioversity International showcased its research addressing the lack of important micronutrients in African diets at Africa’s biggest gathering of nutritionists in Addis Ababa.
The African Nutrition and Epidemiology Conference (ANEC), held every two years, is Africa’s biggest gathering of nutritionists. This year, the…
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One thousand and ninety seven reasons to celebrate World Food Day
In her World Food Day blog, Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International draws attention to the thousands of overlooked food species that could be deployed as strategic assets to help fix the food system.
A recent study by Bioversity International and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) reviewed…
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A closer look at gender relations in forest landscape restoration
On the occasion of the International Day of Rural Women, Giulia Micheletti and Marlène Elias from Bioversity International discuss a framework on how forest landscape restoration can promote gender equality by safeguarding and advancing women’s land rights, encouraging their meaningful participation, and recognizing their expertise and priorities in restoration…
