Check out the today's post on our Rio+20 campaign blog. Bioversity technical editor, Vincent Johnson, looks at three commodity crops that are of special importance for smallholder farmers - banana, cocoa and coconut. (Photo: Bioversity/A. Vezina)
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Poor farmers in the Alto Beni region of Bolivia continue to enjoy improved livelihoods thanks to a project on organic bananas implemented by Bioversity International. An impact assessment, using an asset-based livelihoods approach, found that 85% of farm families in the region said their incomes had increased since the end of the project.
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Fusarium wilt Tropical Race 4, a destructive fungal disease, continues to spread through plantations of bananas in Asia, threatening traditional varieties that small-scale banana growers depend on for their livelihoods. Two new projects, supported by Bureau of Agricultural Research, will not only seek solutions to mitigate the epidemic, but also concentrate on capacity-building with farmers, extension agents and local researchers for its effective management. Photo: Bioversity/Blomme
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Collecting banana diversity is more than just a matter of knowing which accessions (samples) to conserve. Ongoing work in French Polynesia is showing that diversity is not just found in genetic traits, but also the different names given to varieties.
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Did you know that there may be 1000 different types of bananas? Did you know the banana genome is larger than that of rice? Visit Musapedia to get the latest banana know-how
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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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User feedback on the impact of Bioversity's International Transit Centre
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How well does Bioversity's International Transit Centre (ITC) serve its users? A recent impact assessment study aimed to find out.
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Bioversity's International Transit Centre (ITC), hosted at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, is home to the world’s largest collection of banana and plantain germplasm.
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International meeting calls for urgent action to protect bananas against pests and disease outbreaks and climate change threats.
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Dr. Agustin B. Molina, one of Bioversity International's senior scientists has been honoured with a prestigious award from the University of the Philippines Alumni Association (UPAA).
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