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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Using machine learning technology for sustainable coffee farming in Vietnam
01.10.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
As most of the world relies on coffee, producers, roasters, and investors are becoming more…
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How does the Food Action Alliance (FAA), a global food systems initiative facilitated in Latin America by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, relate to United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)
01.10.21-
Food security
By: Dylan Anderson-BerensPrevious blogs in this series introduced the Food Action Alliance (FAA), it…
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Pan Africa Bean Research Alliance launches the Bean Atlas Version 2.0
29.09.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
Two decades after the Bean Atlas’ first publication, a new digital version has arrived. The…
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The deforestation risk of making livestock systems greener
16.09.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Substantial international investment is greening livestock farms with trees and shrubs to make them …
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Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge: Call for innovative solutions in the agri-food tech space
16.09.21-
Biodiversity
As part of the 2nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress, November 15–18, we are thrilled to a…
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Coconut tree cloning breakthrough will help propagation and preservation
15.09.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Coconut trees grow slowly and are difficult to clone. Scientists at KU Leuven and the…
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Guyana’s farming future in the climate crisis: much can be done
15.09.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In our second of a two-part series on the challenges facing farmers in Guyana, we…
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Do we need an IPCC for food?
09.09.21-
Food security
An intergovernmental body that sets Paris Agreement-style targets for global food system transformat…
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Artificial Intelligence delivers solutions to farmers
09.09.21-
Food security
A collaboration between the Alliance and tech start-up GoMicro demonstrates practical applications o…
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Untapped potential for agrobiodiversity to contribute to food system sustainability
07.09.21-
Food security
The Agrobiodiversity Index provides evidence of how well the plants, animals and micro-organisms tha…
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Not all about diversity: what drives the invisible root-microbiome?
03.09.21-
Environmental health
Researchers delve into the complex relationship between agriculture and soil mycorrhizal fungi, whic…
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Building capacities of small and medium enterprises for nutrition-sensitive food systems in Vietnam
25.08.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
The Alliance is part of a multi-stakeholder partnership to promote nutrition-sensitive food systems …
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Steps to ensure seed systems conserve China’s underutilized crops
23.08.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
Researchers explain the importance of seeds for diverse, underutilized crops in China, and suggest p…
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How well do you know Cali’s food system?
23.08.21-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
I was born in Cali – I won’t say how many years ago – and…
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Back to the land: Research helps farmers sequester soil carbon
19.08.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Hydrologist Wuletawu Abera grew up in a small-scale farming family in Ethiopia, now he's uncovered…
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Trade-offs and synergies associated with climate change adaptation strategies
19.08.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
By: Devinia Princess Akinyi, Stanley Karanja Ng’ang’aIntroduction: Alliance researchers summariz…
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Presenting research to expand the frontiers of gender analytical frameworks and methods
18.08.21-
Food security
Participating in conference sessions to share our research and learn of others’ projects provides …
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Capturing fine diet data in Vietnam to guide action on food systems transformation
17.08.21-
Food security
The Alliance in Vietnam has worked on baseline food systems profiles to help address food…
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