“Diversity of diet, founded on diverse farming systems, delivers better nutrition and greater health, with additional benefits for human productivity and livelihoods,” said Emile Frison, Director General of Bioversity International at the launch of a new international project in Rio today.
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Placing renewed emphasis on sustaining the natural variety of crops and animals contributing to agriculture, including neglected yet nutritious traditional foods, can improve food security and address growing global concerns over poor nutrition and its negative health effects, officials said at the launch of a new international project at the World Nutrition Rio Congress 2012.
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CGIAR research has played a major role in agricultural development and world food security for more than 40 years, in particular, helping to improve the livelihoods of billions of rural poor. Today, in an important landmark for the continuation of its research, the CGIAR Consortium achieved International Organization status and recognition.
Bioversity International is one of the 15 CGIAR Consortium Research Centres.
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Slash and burn agriculture of the type practiced by smallholder farmers results in the best regeneration of valuable tropical timber trees, according to a paper to be presented at the Annual Conference of the International Society of Tropical Foresters at Yale University today.
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Bioversity International announced today it will receive funding through an initiative created by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. With Save the Children UK, we will pursue an innovative global health research project, titled The Role of Wild and Underutilized Foods in Daily Costs of Diets in Baringo, Kenya.
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A new Protocol on access and benefit sharing under the Convention on Biological Diversity was agreed at the last minute during marathon negotiations at COP 10 in Nagoya, Japan. Bioversity International broadly welcomes the new protocol.
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