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Integrated natural resource management in practice: enabling communities to improve mountain livelihoods and landscapes: Proceedings of the African highlands initiative conference, 12-15 October, 2004, Nairobi, Kenya
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/56567
Publication year
2006
Authors
Amede, Tilahun
German, LA
Rao, S
Opondo, C
Stroud, Ann…
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Workshop on Effective and Sustainable Seed Relief Activities (2003, Rome). Towards effective and sustainable seed relief activities : Report
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/56560
Publication year
2004
Authors
Sperling, L.
Osborn, Thomas C.
Cooper, D.
Full Citation
Sperling, Louise; Osborn, Thomas C.; Cooper, David (eds.). 2004. Workshop on…
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Cameroon’s “Bean Sharer”
After learning about the benefits of improved bean varieties, one woman has singlehandedly taken up the challenge of distributing beans across her community.
Magdalene Atungsiri is a farmer and retired research technician with Cameroon’s Agricultural Research Institute for Development (IRAD). She has a lifelong passion for agriculture, growing cassava…
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En Cali, nace la Alianza por la alimentación y uso del suelo
Cali es una de las ciudades designadas por la Alianza Bioversity-CIAT como ‘laboratorio de sistemas alimentarios’ donde podamos ganar comprensión práctica sobre estos sistemas y la capacidad de sus actores clave para transformarlos. Ahora, junto con la Secretaría Municipal de Desarrollo Económico de Cali, la Corporación Biotec, la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana y FOLU…
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A city region as a food lab for a greater understanding of food systems
Cali is one of the key food lab cities defined by the Alliance to increase the understanding of food systems and the capacity of its key players to transform them. Now, FOLU Colombia, local governments, private sector representatives and the Alliance will lead a coalition to co-design and test solutions to the most pressing challenges of the city region food…
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Burkina Faso: Rural women’s perspectives on COVID-19
Barbara Vinceti, Alain Touta Traoré, Daouda Traoré
There is no question that 2020 has been an exceptionally difficult year globally. Coupled with the looming climate crisis, the erosion of biodiversity, and severe land degradation, COVID-19 has increased global food insecurity and triggered an economic recession that is pushing the nearly one billion…
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Alliance managing director for the Americas freed after kidnapping
December 7, 2020 – Jesús Antonio Quintana García, the managing director for the Americas at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, was freed after being abducted by an armed group in Colombia on December 5.
Quintana was in good health and spirits after a two-day ordeal.
“The entire Alliance…
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El Valle del Cauca instala Mesa Técnica Agroclimática para contribuir a mitigar efectos del cambio climático en la región
El próximo jueves 10 de diciembre, la Secretaría de Ambiente, Agricultura y Pesca de la Gobernación del Valle del Cauca, con el apoyo del Centro de Investigación de la Caña de Azúcar de Colombia (Cenicaña), Programa de Investigación del CGIAR en Cambio Climático, Agricultura y Seguridad Alimentaria (CCAFS) y la…
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CCAFS y la Alianza Bioversity Internacional y CIAT amplían acuerdo de cooperación con el CAC
El convenio de cooperación técnica busca fortalecer la agricultura en un contexto de cambio climático de los países del Sistema de Integración Centroamericana (SICA).
El Programa de Investigación de CGIAR en Cambio Climático, Agricultura y Seguridad Alimentaria (CCAFS por sus siglas en…
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Dos equipos caleños representarán a la ciudad en el Space Apps 2020 Global
Once de los 18 equipos que participaron, con 60 integrantes, en el Space Apps Challenge (Desafío Internacional de Aplicaciones Espaciales) de la NASA, organizado por el programa SERVIR- Amazonia, liderado por la Alianza Bioversity-CIAT, y la Secretaría de Desarrollo Económico de la Alcaldía de Cali, sometieron sus proyectos al veredicto de los jurados…
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Evolutionary dynamics and biogeography of Musaceae reveal a correlation between the diversification of the banana family and the geological and climatic history of Southeast Asia
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/72498
Abstract
Tropical Southeast Asia, which harbors most of the Musaceae biodiversity, is one of the most species-rich regions in the world. Its high degree of endemism is shaped by the region's tectonic and climatic history, with large differences…
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IMPORTANT MESSAGE
December 7, 2020—The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) informs that Saturday, 5 December 2020, Mr. Jesús Antonio Quintana García, the Alliance’s Managing Director for the Americas, was illegally captured by an armed group under unclear circumstances.
The Alliance requests respect for the life of…
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The Rockefeller Foundation’s Food System Vision Prize Finalists include Alliance partner, CIP
Ten ideas for local food system transformation have entered the final phase of the Food System Vision Prize, including a CGIAR partner organization in Kenya and the International Potato Center in Peru.
Fixing food systems is increasingly becoming a global priority. Our predominant…
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Reclaiming the lost glory of sandy soils in Kenya
Sylvia Nyawira
For a long time, farmers have held on to the belief that sandy soils are not suited to agricultural production. On World Soil Day, we draw the attention to new science-based solutions that are boosting the productivity of sandy soils in a sustainable way.
For a long time, most farmers in Kenya…
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Caring for the seeds of the future during the quarantine
Making sure that the collections of beans, cassava, bananas, and forages remain alive, even during the quarantine, is an essential job of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT in order to preserve the world’s biodiversity and food safety.
Javier Gereda, Genetic Resources Program researcher…
