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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
16.05.25-
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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Alliance Women in Science: Then and Now
01.02.21-
Biodiversity
Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, an opportunity to…
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Toward a sustainable coffee future in Vietnam’s Central Highlands
29.01.21-
Biodiversity
Through extensive research and international collaboration, the Alliance supports work to make coffe…
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Inspiring Ethiopian youth to adopt smart farming
29.01.21-
Nutrition
Youth in the highlands of Ethiopia have been encouraged to take up farming by participation…
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The downward trend: Nature’s decline risks our quality of life
25.01.21-
Biodiversity
Scientists conducted a sweeping review of nature’s contributions to humans in order to present a…
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Responding to the effects of COVID-19 on smallholder bean farmers in Kenya and Uganda
22.01.21-
Biodiversity
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing smallholder farmers’ vulnera…
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How improved livestock and pasture management practices are impacting agro-pastoralists in East Africa
21.01.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Researchers discuss possibilities and constraints for three forms of sustainable livestock managemen…
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Forest and landscape restoration: Beyond fixes that fail
19.01.21-
Biodiversity
One of the challenges in managing tree resources is the long delay between planting efforts…
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: 2nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress
18.01.21-
Biodiversity
UPDATE: The Call for Abstracts is now closed. For the latest information on the 2nd…
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The response from the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT to the COVID-19 crisis in Asia
11.06.20-
Health
COVID-19 emphasized the need for more resilient and healthy food systems. In Asia, we are…
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Giving voice to the voiceless: How COVID-19 is impacting Nairobi slum residents, in their own words
09.06.20COVID-19 has only further complicated the challenge of feeding growing cities across Africa and the…
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The response from the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT to COVID-19 impacts on global food systems
22.04.20The number of people affected by hunger, already a staggering 800 million, could double as…
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Earth Day 2020: Climate Action for resilient food systems
21.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
To ensure food security following the COVID-19 pandemic, we must confront the climate crisis. The…
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Caring for the seeds of the future during the quarantine
20.04.20-
Biodiversity
Making sure that the collections of beans, cassava, bananas, and forages remain alive, even during…
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A Call to Action for World Leaders Preventing a Global Food Security Crisis while Combatting COVID-19
08.04.20COVID-19 is posing unprecedented challenges for food systems around the world. The Food and Land Us…
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An Alliance for Trees: Why forest biodiversity is "too precious to lose"
20.03.20From forest fires to COVID-19, this year has already presented grave challenges to human and planet…
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Enhancing soil fauna richness and abundance in low-input systems: Examples from Kenya
17.09.19Over the years, many discussions on the benefits of conservation agriculture vis-à-vis conventional…
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“We are receiving a free subsidy from nature, but it will not continue indefinitely” – Louis Verchot
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
“Many findings are important for us and for policy makers around the world. The report…
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Artificial intelligence helps banana growers protect the world’s most favorite fruit
12.08.19-
Biodiversity
Using artificial intelligence, scientists created an easy-to-use tool to detect banana diseases and …
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