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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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Genetic breakthrough on tropical grass could help develop climate-friendly cattle farms
09.04.19The discovery of genes responsible for asexual reproduction in a tropical grass may reduce negative…
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Safeguarding the future of banana against changing climates, pests and diseases
08.04.19-
Biodiversity
KU Leuven and Bioversity International today sign a landmark agreement to safeguard the future of…
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MaMo Panelists call for concerted efforts towards a thriving Africa through Agriculture, Nutrition and Mechanization
04.04.19A team of experts met at a joint policy seminar for the Malabo Montpellier (MaMo)…
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App enables smallholder farmers to be community influencers and citizen scientists
02.04.19The GeoFarmer app allows community workers and smallholders to easily collect and share information …
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More bang for the climate buck: study identifies hotspots for adaptation funding
01.04.19By combining the latest crop models and local expertise in Vietnam, Uganda and Nicaragua, scientists…
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Ask the innovators: Which agricultural practices work best locally?
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new study by Bioversity International explores the power of ‘positive deviance’ in Tanzania. B…
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Using cost-benefit analysis to enhance our understanding of livestock management practices in the lowland of Ethiopia
26.03.19A new cost-benefit analysis by CIAT examines three practices for improved livestock management in Et…
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Four steps to diversify at multiple levels
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
A new assessment method means farmers can identify climate resilience gaps and ways to fill…
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Sustainable land use systems: A way to help achieve Colombia’s climate change mitigation and peacebuilding goals
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Environmental health
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Food security
Colombia has set ambitious targets to mitigate climate change and achieve stability. One promising a…
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Dramatic rainfall changes for key crops expected even with reduced greenhouse gas emissions
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
By 2040, rainfall on wheat, soybean, rice and maize will have changed, even if Paris…
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USAID and NASA Harnessing Technology for Development in the Amazon
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. National Aeronautics and…
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María Elker Montoya, champion creator of the method helping to fight off the Rice Hoja Blanca Virus
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Biodiversity
María, who started her career as a Research Assistant at the Latin American Fund for…
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On International Women’s Day, let’s think about gender equality
05.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
We interviewed our gender leaders Marlène Elias (M.E.) of Bioversity and Jennifer Twyman (J.T.) of…
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Beyond trees: Land restoration to enhance gender equality in Burkina Faso
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
Not all farmers are able to adopt or benefit from landscape restoration practices equally. A…
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Arrivederci – Ann Tutwiler's Farewell Blog
27.02.19-
Biodiversity
As Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International prepares to step down, she reflects on t…
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Biodiversity loss threatens future of food
25.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The precious biodiversity that sustain our food systems is in decline, according to first-ever glo…
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Farmer science accelerates climate adaptation
19.02.19-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A new study in PNAS addresses the challenge of climate adaptation in a way that…
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Celebrating women in science
08.02.19-
Gender equality
Join us in celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! On this…
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