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Distributing high-iron and zinc bean varieties to women farmers during COVID-19
Eileen Bogweh Nchanji
Achieving food and nutritional security and economic prosperity is possible within an equitable system where structural barriers are removed and traditional gender norms and stereotypes are broken. With additional stress on food security caused by social and economic disruptions of the pandemic, it is key to…
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Partnerships for solutions: assessing COVID’s impacts on poor urban consumers in Africa
Rosemary Nzuki
Alliance researchers in Nairobi, Kenya, report on a joint study establishing the effects of COVID-19 on residents’ livelihoods and food access
With COVID-19 disrupting food systems worldwide, the negative implications for food and nutrition security are…
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Coming to the rescue: Payment for agrobiodiversity services to safeguard crop varieties in Guatemala
Claire Lubke
The Alliance-led PACS programme is helping saving resilient traditional crop varieties in Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
A farmer holds the “round red bean,” one of the bean varieties that was prioritized by the PACS…
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The complex relationship between deforestation and diet diversity in the Amazon
As increasing areas of the Amazonian rainforest are converted into agricultural land, scientists are examining how this is linked with local communities’ food access. A newly published research shows that over the period of 15 years, deforestation and reduction of agricultural diversity are associated with reduced diversity in human diets…
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Researchers and entrepreneurs bring back forgotten gems: underutilized crops transformed into healthy snacks
Irene Mudiovo Induli, Yasuyuki Morimoto, Patrick Maundu
Researchers are exploring innovative technologies that could offer alternative organic, nutritious, and readily available yet affordable snacks.
Considering the triple burden of…
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How COVID-19 is impacting banana-producing countries
Rachel Chase , Nicolas Roux
Alliance researchers share survey results and firsthand video testimonials from banana networks in India, Ecuador, and Ghana as they support recovery efforts.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted numerous agrosystems and associated livelihoods across the globe, with continued…
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Working across institutions and disciplines for science-based responses to fight COVID-19 in Ethiopia
Michael Victor, Sean Mattson
Agricultural researchers are applying data sharing and analytics to improve COVID testing and treatment, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and other research centers.
Ethiopia recorded its first case of COVID-19 on…
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The proteome profile of embryogenic cell suspensions of Coffea arabica L.
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/73379
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Somatic embryogenesis, is a process by which new viable embryos are produced from somatic tissues. Somatic embryogenesis is not only a useful biotechnological tool for the massive clonal propagation and genetic engineering but it also allows to obtain fundamental knowledge about the molecular changes that take place during embryogenesis. We…
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Biodiversity: a building block for a healthier future
On the International Day for Biological Diversity, we discuss how biodiversity can be leveraged to embed resilience in our food systems and build a healthy future.
Biodiversity is the foundation of healthy ecosystems. The air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink rely on it…
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On the hunt for wild bananas in Papua New Guinea
Eliot Gee
Scientists are racing to collect and conserve wild banana species. A recent expedition to the epicenter of banana diversity shows that wild species hold traits critical to helping the world’s favorite fruit survive climate change, pests and diseases.
The banana has its earliest origins in Papua…
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Reawakened: The Lexicon launches global storytelling challenge for biodiversity
Petaluma, CA — The Lexicon, a North America-based NGO that creates collective impact campaigns to address food system challenges, announces “Reawakened Foods” an international storytelling challenge, in partnership with the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT…
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Fortaleciendo la cadena de servicios climáticos en Centroamérica
Por. Arely Valdivia y Carlos Navarro
Centroamérica es una de las regiones más vulnerables ante el cambio y la variabilidad climática a nivel mundial. En particular, la región se caracteriza por períodos de sequía y canículas prolongadas (veranillos), comportamientos erráticos de las lluvias, tormentas tropicales junto con otras condiciones climáticas extremas, que…
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3.II Cereals: Maize
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/104229
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IPGRI maintains a number of databases with summary information on ex situ germplasm collections worldwide. The data include address information on organizations holding germplasm and summary information on the type of germplasm that is maintained, such as: species names, number of accessions per species, type of accessions, etc. Currently, summary information on more than 5 million accessions…
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Assessing climate change impact on Guyana's crops using integrated crop and spatial modeling approaches.
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance (Bioversity-CIAT Alliance)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/113955
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The Crop and Spatial Modeling activity was part of the project ‘Development of an Evidence-Based, Gender Equitable Framework for Climate Smart Agriculture Interventions,’ carried out under the Ministry of Agriculture and in collaboration with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), the…
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Community training manual on macro-propagation using detached corms
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance (Bioversity-CIAT Alliance)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/113861
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Within the framework of a Bioversity International project titled “Addressing micronutrient deficiencies in sub –Saharan Africa through Musa – based foods”, banana varieties rich in vitamin A originally from outside East and Central Africa were introduced in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. To increase the availability and quality of…
