Peninah Mwangangi has a smallholder farm in the arid region of Kitui, in eastern Kenya. She explains how using local traditional food crops have helped mitigate against harvest loss when the rains don't come. This is the third story in our 'Fork in the Road' series as part of our Rio+20 campaign.
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Laura Snook Programme Leader, Forest Genetic Resources Conservation and Use, talks about the need to harness the huge genetic diversity of different tree species to face challenges such as climate change and find sustainable ways to use and conserve it for our future. This video is the latest from our Rio+20 campaign blog.
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Peninah Mwangangi has a smallholder farm in the arid region of Kitui, in eastern Kenya. She explains how using local traditional food crops have helped mitigate against harvest loss when the rains don't come. This is the third story in our 'Fork in the Road' series as part of our Rio+20 campaign.
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Meet Surya Adhikari – a progressive smallholder Nepalese farmer, agricultural scientist and ambassador for agricultural biodiversity. This is the first in a series of stories meeting farmers along the road to Rio.
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An Earth Day 2012 reading list featuring recent Bioversity International publications.
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An independent commission of scientific leaders from 13 countries has today released a detailed set of 7 recommendations to policy makers on how to achieve food security in the face of climate change. Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT)
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A new climate change tool will not only help farmers to prepare for the future, it may also spur implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
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A unique web resource designed to facilitate the conservation and use of wild plant species that are related to cultivated crops in Guatemala.
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A new 3 year initiative will support scaled-up sustainable landscape management approaches in over 60 biodiversity hotspots around the world.
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A pioneering new study throws new light on the ways smallholder farmers will be able to obtain seeds to cope with climate change.
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A year into the Seeds for Needs project in Ethiopia, project leader Eshan Dulloo reports on progress.
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Representatives from 21 countries met last week in Peru for the first ‘Banana and Plantain in Latin America and the Caribbean' international symposium.
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A video interview with Project Leader Ehsan Dulloo, about Seeds for Needs in Ethiopia.
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Find out how Bioversity is helping farmers to adapt to climate change by watching this project video report.
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It is predicted that by 2055 more than half of the 23 crops studied by Bioversity scientists will lose land suitable for their cultivation
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Global food security has become increasingly dependent on only a handful of crops which has resulted in thousands of species with local relevance becoming neglected and underutilized.
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A race to protect future food security by pre-selecting and testing crop varieties naturally adapted to expected climate conditions.
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Sustainable agriculture has to be cohesive at environmental, economic and socio-cultural levels. The work of Bioversity International supports all three aspects.
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