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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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Bioversity-CIAT Alliance joins Colombian network to monitor the evolution of COVID-19 virus
30.03.21-
Biodiversity
The underlying technology used to track the evolution of plant viruses can help track human…
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Genebank joins network to boost conservation and use of agrobiodiversity
29.03.21-
Biodiversity
Future Seeds is the Latin American hub of international initiative to mobilize crop diversity conser…
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How to facilitate for inclusion: 14 tips from knowledge sharing experts
29.03.21-
Biodiversity
As part of its commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace, on International Women’s…
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Upscaling Climate Smart and Nutrition Sensitive Beans and Finger Millet in Uganda
26.03.21-
Nutrition
Upscaling Climate Smart and Nutrition Sensitive Beans and Finger Millet in Uganda…
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Take a virtual tour of the Alliance’s Genebanks
23.03.21-
Biodiversity
Watch our latest video to learn what goes on behind the scenes to conserve of…
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The Honduras Water Platform is now available for Development Region 13 (R13) – Gulf of Fonseca
19.03.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Due to its mountainous landscape, the Honduran territory has a large water supply system, comprised…
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Mass-produced coffee and chocolate puts nature and social welfare at risk, scientists warn, with urgent transformation needed
18.03.21-
Food security
Higher prices are among reforms needed to tackle farmer neglect, child labor and environmental damag…
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A new decade of forest restoration: Lessons learned from Burkina Faso
18.03.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
For this International Day of Forests’ theme of forest restoration, we take a closer look…
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Public and Private Partnerships improve smallholder farmer fortunes in Babati, Tanzania
17.03.21-
Biodiversity
The Alliance joins efforts to improve soil fertility and agricultural output in Tanzania.…
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Banking on indigenous seed: investing in a healthier future
09.03.21-
Nutrition
Vihiga, Kenya: researchers and farmers have established a community seedbank to cultivate traditiona…
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In her words: one woman fighting COVID-19 in Nairobi
05.03.21-
Biodiversity
This International Women’s Day, we spoke with Elizabeth Nduta Njeri, a community health volunteer …
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Bringing better seeds to indigenous farmers in Vietnam’s Northern highlands
01.03.21-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
How can increased access to, and use of, high-quality seed translate into enhanced nutrition and…
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How grass translates to cash in Western Kenya
25.02.21-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Every morning, Nelly Adhiambo wakes up just as dawn is breaking to feed her five…
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Towards smart farming in Ethiopia: sharing experiences for successful adaptation of small-scale irrigation and value chain assessment
19.02.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Members of the Alliance’s Multifunctional Landscapes Team report on recent capacity-building exper…
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The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT will deliver two freezers to Palmira to store COVID vaccines
15.02.21-
Health
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT…
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Launch of first digital catalog of cassava varieties from Cauca, Colombia
09.02.21-
Biodiversity
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, the French Agricultural Research Center for Inter…
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Scientists convene to reveal new research and tools for combatting a deadly banana disease
05.02.21-
Biodiversity
“Pandemic” has become a household term over the past year, but uncontrolled disease outbreaks do…
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Where is my crop? Data-driven Initiatives for Rice and Cassava Analysis
02.02.21-
Big data
Globally there is an explosion of digital data across all sectors of society, and agriculture…
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