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Deforestation has many drivers but one is often overlooked: food consumption in cities that increases demand for products produced on deforested land. To be successful, tropical countries’ zero-deforestation policies need to address changing urban food demands ...
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Post-COVID-19, we need a food systems approach to achieve zero-deforestation diets
The COVID-19 pandemic brings home a point that Jane Goodall recently echoed in a stern warning to the world. In an interview, the celebrated primatologist said humanity will end if we do not change our ways, specifically how and what we eat, which has caused undue damage to forests ... ➤
In times of COVID-19, experts give suggestions for strengthening Colombia’s food system
Digitization throughout the entire system, consumer education, associativity in marketing, protocols for biosecurity, reduction of losses and waste from production to consumption, and the strengthening of urban and peri-urban agriculture will make Colombia’s food system more efficient. This was one of the major conclusions that came out of the national ... ➤
Giving voice to the voiceless: How COVID-19 is impacting Nairobi slum residents, in their own words
COVID-19 has only further complicated the challenge of feeding growing cities across Africa and the rest of the world. Researchers are listening to vulnerable urban populations to help develop better, sustainable food system solutions ... ➤
COVID-19 highlights the need for food systems-based policies for reducing tropical deforestation
Deforestation has many drivers but one is often overlooked: food consumption in cities that increases demand for products produced on deforested land. To be successful, tropical countries’ zero-deforestation policies need to address changing urban food demands ... ➤
International analytics award goes to CGIAR centers for sustainable agriculture tools
The 2020 Innovative Applications in Analytics Award (IAAA) was awarded to the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Their tools, which help farmers to increase productivity, use more sustainable practices and access markets, ... ➤
Distributing high-iron and zinc bean varieties to women farmers during COVID-19
In an act of solidarity, seeds awarded as an incentive to smallholders are shared with other women farmers unable to purchase seed during the pandemic ... ➤
Update: Food systems for healthier diets A4NH contributions to the nutrition sensitive movement in Vietnam continue
Agriculture for Nutrition and Health Research Program (A4NH) researchers from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT have been part of the Technical Working Group on Nutrition led by UNICEF and the National Institute of Nutrition in Vietnam since 2017 ... ➤
Taming heat stress – climate change adaptation of pig and dairy sector in Uganda
Global heat stress is a growing problem that stands to impact health, livelihoods and the very food we eat. While high temperatures and heat waves can occur under normal weather conditions, with climate change they are becoming more severe, last longer and happen more frequently. In 2019, we saw wildfires ... ➤
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. From its work sites in laboratories, greenhouses, and experimental fields in ... ➤
Ethiopia Government and Alliance partners to implement USD 32 million water project
Downstream panoramic view of dam axis for Mekaneselam water supply dam, Ethiopia. The federal government of Ethiopia, through the regional government of Amhara, has been involved in the development of various water projects both for drinking and irrigation purposes to ensure water security in the country. However, many of the ... ➤
100 years since the birth of Armando Samper Gnecco
On a day like today, on April 9, 1920, Dr. Armando Samper Gnecco was born in Bogotá, Colombia. Years later, he would be renowned for dedicating his life to the development of agriculture in Latin America ... ➤
Training Heifer International on Market System Development
The Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) has been supporting Heifer International in their drive to adopt the Market System Development (MSD) approach as an intervention model within the organization, so far conducting four introductory training sessions ... ➤
Interactive Stories
Newly released interactive infographics show how the so-called “globalized diet” has emerged. They unearth a number of surprises about the foods we eat across the world. Who’d have thought ...
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Five surprising ways people’s diets have changed over the past 50 years
What he’s looking for is something more ancient than the Incas, and potentially more valuable than all their silver and gold ...
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On the trail of ancient treasure in Peru
When many people hear the word cassava, they immediately think of a subsistence crop. Is this really the case? It depends on who you ask ...
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Cassava: Subsistence Crop or Trendy Commodity?
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Ogaye Format shows the diverse vegetables and new cultivation methods he is using on his farm with support from the Alliance and partners.
Ogaye Format shows the diverse vegetables and new cultivation methods he is using on his farm with support from the Alliance and partners.
Evans Ochuto shows the diverse seeds he is growing on his farm. He also helps run the seed bank at Vihiga, Kenya, with the Alliance and partners.
Evans Ochuto shows the diverse seeds and Amaranth he is growing on his farm. He also helps run the seed bank at Vihiga set up together with the Alliance and partners.
Elizabeth Omusiele with her chickens. She grows diverse seeds on her farm with support from the Alliance and partners.
Elizabeth Omusiele shows the diverse seeds she is growing on her farm with support from the Alliance Researchers at the Alliance and partners.
Elizabeth Omusiele shows the diverse seeds she is growing on her farm with support from the Alliance and partners.
Elizabeth Omusiele shows the diverse seeds she is growing on her farm with support from the Alliance and partners.
Elizabeth Omusiele shows the diverse seeds she is growing on her farm with support from the Alliance and partners.
Elizabeth Omusiele shows the diverse seeds she is growing on her farm with support from the Alliance and partners.
Elizabeth Omusiele shows the diverse seeds she is growing on her farm with support from the Alliance and partners.
Elizabeth Omusiele shows the diverse seeds she is growing on her farm with support from the Alliance and partners.
Diverse seeds show by Pauline Odera, a farmer who also runs the seedbank at Vihiga, Kenya. Researchers at the Alliance worked with partners.
Diverse seeds show by Concepta Makokha, a farmer who also runs the seedbank at Vihiga, Kenya. Researchers at the Alliance worked with partners.
Diverse seeds at the farmer run seed bank at Vihiga, Kenya. Researchers at the Alliance worked with partners.
Diverse seeds at the farmer run seed bank at Vihiga, Kenya. Researchers at the Alliance worked with partners.
Diverse seeds at the farmer run seed bank at Vihiga set up together with partners.
Lillian Aluso at the genebank in Vihiga, Kenya.
Lillian Aluso at the genebank in Vihiga, Kenya.
Researchers work with farmers to measure and weigh forage grasses in field trials to find better forage feed varieties project together with KALRO, Send a Cow and Advantage Crops.
Researchers work with farmers to measure and weigh forage grasses in field trials to find better forage feed varieties project together with KALRO, Send a Cow and Advantage Crops.
Researchers work with farmers to measure and weigh forage grasses in field trials to find better forage feed varieties project together with KALRO, Send a Cow and Advantage Crops.
Researchers work with farmers to measure and weigh forage grasses in field trials to find better forage feed varieties project together with KALRO, Send a Cow and Advantage Crops.
Researchers work with farmers to measure and weigh forage grasses in field trials to find better forage feed varieties project together with KALRO, Send a Cow and Advantage Crops.
Researchers work with farmers to measure and weigh forage grasses in field trials to find better forage feed varieties project together with KALRO, Send a Cow and Advantage Crops.
Researchers measure and weigh forage grasses in field trials to find better forage feed varieties project together with KALRO, Send a Cow and Advantage Crops.
Researchers measure and weigh forage grasses in field trials to find better forage feed varieties project together with KALRO, Send a Cow and Advantage Crops.
Researchers measure and weigh forage grasses in field trials to find better forage feed varieties project project together with KALRO, Send a Cow and Advantage Crops.
Nelly Adhiambo with her grasses in Busia, Kenya. She has seen the benefit of new forages grasses as a result of the Grass to Cash project together with KALRO, Send a Cow and Advantage Crops.
Nelly Adhiambo milking her cows in Busia, Kenya. She has seen the benefit of new forages grasses as a result of the Grass to Cash project together with KALRO, Send a Cow and Advantage Crops.
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