Healthy diets
One thousand and ninety seven reasons to celebrate World Food Day
In her World Food Day blog, Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International draws attention to the thousands of overlooked food...
Using vignettes to explore gender issues related to food security and nutrition
Giulia Micheletti, Marlène Elias, and Jessica Raneri of Bioversity International describe a nutrition-sensitive version of GENNOVATE, in which a...
More than a thousand vegetables, many of them forgotten
Bioversity International and partners reveal that most of the world's vegetable species are poorly documented, and present a study and database with...
Diversity from field to fork
Bioversity International collaborates with Biovision to encourage farming families in the Vihiga County of Kenya to grow a wider range of vegetables,...
Adding colour to rural diets year round with the Seasonal Food Availability Booklet
From focus group to plate: a new tool developed by Bioversity International to enhance the use of local agrobiodiversity for health and nutrition
Better data for better nutrition
A new tool, developed by Bioversity International and partners in Kenya, will ease the burden of measuring food intake thus helping decision-making in...
Busia, first county in Kenya to endorse a Biodiversity Conservation Policy
Busia has become the first of Kenya’s 47 counties to endorse a Biodiversity Conservation Policy. Emphasizing the economic and nutritional potential of...
Disrupting agricultural and tree biodiversity science – a review of Bioversity International’s 2017
On the International Day of Biological Diversity, which in 2018 marks 25 years of action for biodiversity, our Director General, Ann Tutwiler is proud...
Shaking up markets and narratives for increased consumption of nutritious fonio and Bambara groundnut
Effective value chains can increase the presence of a crop in markets and enable farmers to earn reliable incomes, which encourages continued...
Women at the helm of change – one-on-one with the Kyanika Adult Women Group
Kyanika Adult Women Group has been a significant stakeholder in Bioversity International’s work in Kitui region, Kenya, for almost two decades. Irene...