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A tool to guide species and seed selection for the restoration of seasonally dry tropical forest in Colombia
Making sure that native species and seed sources are site-adapted requires a certain degree of scientifically-based decision making capacity, which most restoration practitioners currently do not have. As part of our CBD COP13 Forest and Landscape Restoration blog series, Evert Thomas writes about how Bioversity…
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Boosting the conservation of crop wild relatives in Southern Africa
Bioversity International’s South African Development Community Crop Wild Relatives Project is drawing to a close with a final dissemination meeting that took place in Pretoria, South Africa, on 23–24 November 2016.
Bioversity International’s South African Development Community Crop Wild Relatives Project is drawing to a close with a final…
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Restoring productivity and biodiversity in tropical forests by mimicking natural disasters
Laura Snook, Coordinator of Management and Conservation of Forest and Tree Resources, CGIAR Research Programme on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry, explains why sometimes it necessary to clear patches of trees to stimulate regeneration of species that become established after natural disturbances; part of the special blog series for COP13…
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A measure of diversity from production to diets: The value of an Agrobiodiversity Index
Bioversity International's Director General, Ann Tutwiler, guest-blogs for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) from the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP13) in Cancun, Mexico and explains the importance of mainstreaming agrobiodiversity in food systems and the rationale behind the Agrobiodiversity Index…
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Integração da biodiversidade à nutrição no Brasil
Daniela Moura de Oliveira Beltrame, Coordenadora do Projeto Nacional Biodiversidade para Alimentação e Nutrição, explica por que o Brasil está colocando diversas espécies nativas no centro das políticas de desenvolvimento sustentável no último Blog da COP13 da CDB.
Daniela Moura de Oliveira Beltrame, Coordenadora Nacional de Projetos, Biodiversidade para…
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Seminario sobre el Potencial para la Producción de Ganado de Carne en América Tropical (1974, Cali, Colombia). Trabajos presentados
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/56321
Publication year
1975
Full Citation
Seminario sobre el Potencial para la Producción de Ganado de Carne en América Tropical (1974, Cali, Colombia). Trabajos presentados. 1975. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical…
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Restoring lands and livelihoods in Burkina Faso: The business of one association
Mr Alain Traoré, Director of tiipaalga, shares insights from his long-term efforts in fostering farmer-led restoration initiatives in Burkina Faso as part of our CBD COP13 Blog Series.
Effective participation of indigenous peoples and local communities and women in ecosystem restoration is one of the three main principles of the…
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Bioversity International supports CBD's call for mainstreaming biodiversity for well-being
Bioversity International is gearing up to participate in the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 13) in Cancun, Mexico, which starts in a few days’ time. Ann Tutwiler, Director General of Bioversity International, blogs about the CBD - the most important global instrument promoting the…
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Our mission is a no-brainer, says incoming Board Chair Julia Marton-Lefèvre
We stopped to chat with two special guests of the first International Agrobiodiversity Congress in Delhi – Julia Marton-Lefèvre and Cristián Samper – incoming and outgoing Chairs of the Bioversity International Board of Trustees.
We stopped to chat with two special guests of the first International Agrobiodiversity Congress in Delhi…
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Seeds of change: training restoration practitioners to solve genetic problems
Riina Jalonen, Associate Scientist at Bioversity International, shares her insights into how to get restoration practitioners interested in genetic issues and equip them with tools to select more diverse and viable seed with better adaptive capacity. This is the fourth blog in Bioversity International's COP13 blog series.
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Small is beautiful: Restoring degraded lands, one parcel at a time
Bioversity International partner, Mr Harouna Kaboré, farmer from Burkina Faso, talks about his experience restoring three hectares of his household’s degraded lands in the third blog in the CBD COP13 Forest and Landscape Restoration Blog Series.
The Aichi Biodiversity Targets agreed in Nagoya in 2012 included restoring 15% of the world’s…
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Why seeds for trees matter in ecosystem restoration efforts in Burkina Faso
Bioversity International partner, Dr Moussa Ouédraogo, Director of the National Tree Seed Centre, Burkina Faso outlines longstanding efforts to supply quality seeds for restoration initiatives and the challenges they are facing in the second blog in the COP13 blog series.
The Aichi Biodiversity Targets agreed in Nagoya in 2012…
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COP13 Blog Series - Introducing Forest and Landscape Restoration
Riina Jalonen, Associate Scientist, explains why forest and landscape restoration matters in the context of the upcoming Convention on Biological Diversity's COP13 happening in Mexico in the first blog in a special series.
Riina Jalonen, Associate Scientist at Bioversity International, explains why forest and landscape restoration matters…
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Uganda President Museveni officiates at Bioversity International Banana Farmers Day
Banana is a very important source of food and income in Uganda. Bioversity International and NARO organized the first Banana Farmers’ Day, which was attended by President Museveni, to celebrate the successes in managing a deadly banana disease.
By Joshua Turyatemba
Banana is one of the most important sources of food and…
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Spicing it up to increase vitamin A consumption in Vietnam
In the sixth of her blog reports from Vietnam, Jessica Raneri, Nutrition Programme Specialist, explains possible new opportunities to increase vitamin A consumption from vegetable sources in Mai Son, by shifting condiments into dark green leafy vegetables.
In the sixth of her blog reports from Vietnam, Jessica Raneri, Nutrition Programme Specialist,…
