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Rio de Janeiro, 28 April 2012 – 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.

Fire is essential for sustainable forest generation

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 by Dr Laura Snook, programme director at Bioversity International.

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Bioversity International receives Grand Challenges Exploration Funding

Bioversity International announced today that it will receive funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges.

Bioversity International, in collaboration with Save the Children UK, 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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New Agricultural Biodiversity Project to Improve Nutrition and Food Security Worldwide