Genes are gems for food security
Risk management in the face of climate change is something we can all learn from smallholder farmers. As climate change stalks global agriculture, researchers should collaborate with smallholder farmers in enhancing the diversification of crops to ensure food security, says Emile Frison, Director General of Bioversity International.
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Making ecosystem services count at the 6th Annual ESP Conference
Start gearing up for the Ecosystem Services Partnership Conference in Bali, Indonesia, August 2013. The conference will be a chance for practitioners, policymakers, researchers and others working on ecosystem services to exchange ideas and develop tools for better management and decision-making.
Password to a more secure agriculture
Leading up to the Resilience 2014 conference, a workshop on Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystems will be held by Bioversity International and CIRAD, the French agricultural research for development centre. In this blog post Fabrice DeClerck from Bioversity International reflects on agricultural biodiversity and resilience.
How much is that ecosystem in the window?
A recently published article 'Ecosystem services research in Latin America: The state of the art' examines more than 1000 related research papers. Read a review of the article by Jeremy Cherfas, Bioversity International, which was posted on the Water, Land and Ecosystems blog today.
Agrobiodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Bioversity International's Agrobiodiversity and Ecosystem Services Programme aims to understand how biodiversity in agricultural landscapes contributes to the provision of ecosystem services that benefit the poor.
Can scientists agree on what constitutes ecosystem services and resilience?
Ecosystem services and resilience is a cross cutting theme within the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems, in which Bioversity International is a partner. Last month, at a program workshop, scientists tried to develop a shared understanding of what these concepts really mean.
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