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Diary of a Shea tree
This year for International Women's Day, Bioversity has collected stories that inspire progress. Here is a story about gender narrated by a Shea tree.
This year for International Women's Day, Bioversity has collected stories that inspire progress. Here is a story about gender narrated by a Shea tree.
My name is Shea, which means ‘tree of life’. I am a majestic tree born in the savannah.…
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Native fruit trees of life
This year for International Women's Day, Bioversity has collected stories that inspire change. Here is the story of Mrs Rajeshwari and Mr Parameshwar, an Indian farming couple.
This year for International Women's Day, Bioversity has collected stories that inspire change. Here is the story of Mrs Rajeshwari and Mr Parameshwar, an Indian farming couple.
Mrs Rajeshwari and Mr…
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Integração da biodiversidade e da nutrição no Brasil
No momento em que o Brasil revisa seu plano nacional de ação e biodiversidade, uma iniciativa global do Fundo Global para o Meio Ambiente, liderada pelo Brasil, Quênia, Sri Lanka e Turquia e coordenada pela Bioversity International, está ajudando a definir a agenda.
No momento em que o Brasil revisa seu Plano Nacional de Biodiversidade e Ação, uma…
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Bioversity guidelines part of CBD resources on access and benefit sharing
The Convention on Biological Diversity has included Bioversity International’s Guidelines on access and benefit sharing in research projects in their online toolkit for policymakers and plant genetic resources users.
The access to and use of plant genetic resources is vital for farmers all over the world to adapt to climate…
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The agricultural biodiversity connection to feeding the world - DG Dialogues
Following her speech at the Economist's Feeding the World event earlier this month, Bioversity International Director General, M. Ann Tutwiler, blogs about why we need to diversify our food and agricultural systems to minimize risk.
Following her speech at the Economist's Feeding the World event earlier this month, Bioversity…
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The winner of the Abdou-Salam Ouédraogo Fellowship announced
The fellowship has been awarded to a young researcher from the National Tree Seed Center of Burkina Faso, founded and directed by Dr Ouédraogo to carry forward the research on Parkia biglobosa, commonly called néré.
We are pleased to announce that Mr Guibien Cléophas Zerbo has won this year’s ASO Fellowship which supports young scientists to carry…
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The Economist, Feeding the World 2014
M. Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International and Frank Rijsberman, CEO, CGIAR Consortium will take part in 'The Economist - Feeding the World' event on 13 February, 2014.
As is well known by now the global population is set to rise considerably by 2050, with numbers at the higher range estimated at 9.6 billion. Most of these people will be born in…
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Indicators – first steps to building a resilient system
Results from field testing a set of resilience indicators, developed by Bioversity International and partners in 2011, are now informing the development of a user-friendly toolkit due later this year.
Shocks and disturbances are inevitable in any system. Communities can be vulnerable to extreme weather events, market fluctuations, migration, and other…
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La mustia hilachosa del frijol
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/55943
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The etiology and epidemiology of web blight of beans (Thanatephorus cucumeris) are reviewed and its control through cultural practices, use of tolerant cv. and fungicides is discussed. Cultural practices that have proved effective in controlling the disease include use of pathogen-free seed, elimination of crop residues, crop rotation with nonhost species (grasses and some vegetables),…
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‘Memoir of a shea tree’ and other stories call for votes
Bioversity's gender fellows discuss the complementarity of men's and women's roles in managing agroforestry systems in blog posts submitted to the World Congress on Agroforestry blog contest. Vote for your favorite blog by 5 February, 2014.
In 2014 the spotlight is on family farming and particularly rural farmer households’ role in achieving sustainable…
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Noah’s Ark on a budget: How to decide which diversity to safeguard?
In a recent paper, Bioversity International researchers show how a mathematically rigorous approach can help policymakers make decisions about what crop diversity to conserve in the most cost-effective way.
How can a busy policymaker with a limited budget make decisions about what crop diversity to conserve in the most cost-effective…
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Cultural constraints, dearth of data limit forests role in food security
The contribution of forests and trees to feed the growing population is hampered by cultural factors and limited data, among other issues, according to a recent paper co-authored by Bioversity scientists and partners, highlighted by Thomson Reuters.
The role of forests and trees to help sustainably feed the growing population is hampered…
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Bringing Biodiversity into the Green Revolution Equation
M. Ann Tutwiler authors a guest post for Farming First on how private-public partnerships can contribute to better agricultural biodiversity.
M. Ann Tutwiler authors a guest post for Farming First on how private-public partnerships can contribute to better agricultural biodiversity, a topic she will discuss further as a keynote speaker at the 82nd…
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IPBES puts biodiversity and pollination front and centre
Bioversity scientists Fabrice DeClerck and Isabel López-Noriega consider the new IPBES work plan in this blog post. Will other agricultural ecosystem services also be on the future agenda?
Modelled after the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) aims…
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Global Forum for Food and Agriculture 2014
Bioversity International's Director General M. Ann Tutwiler and Deputy Director General-Research, Stephan Weise spoke at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture 2014, focusing on the role of biodiversity in boosting resilience for smallholders.
The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) 2014 is an international conference that focuses on the future of the…
