conservation
Bridging agriculture and environment: Southern African crop wild relative regional network
A new project funded by the Darwin Initiative is bringing together Southern African countries and international research organizations to establish a...
Conserving diversity: Interactive Toolkit for Crop Wild Relative Conservation Planning
An interactive toolkit, developed by Bioversity International and the University of Birmingham, guides national programmes on planning the...
Agricultural biodiversity – Use it or lose it!
In the context of the upcoming World Food Day, scientist Ehsan Dulloo explains conservation strategies for a precious resource – agricultural...
A threat-mapping approach to guide conservation of food tree species in Burkina Faso
In a recent article on PLOS ONE, Bioversity International researchers and partners have analyzed 16 food tree species in Burkina Faso and 6 key...
30 years of banana diversity hosted in Belgium – A treasure chest to feed the world
KU Leuven, Belgium – The world’s largest banana genebank managed by Bioversity International, celebrated today its 30th anniversary with an event...
Cryopreservation – Safeguarding crops for millennia
Cryopreservation consists of storing plant material in liquid nitrogen at -196 °C. A new video explains how Bioversity International is using...
Saving the Pacific’s coconuts
Government representatives from Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Samoa are meeting this week to launch a mission, coordinated by Bioversity International...
Agricultural biodiversity for “The Future We Want” – a close-up on indigenous perspectives
Indigenous peoples from around the world gathered in Shillong, in north-east India, for the second Indigenous Terra Madre, where agricultural...
The future of food - why protected areas are more than just a safe haven for pandas
While the wider public perception of the value of protected areas may often be as a safe haven for poster child endangered species, the real value is...
Half a century of pioneering seed conservation: an interview with Malaysian seed icon Professor Chin
Celebrating his 80th birthday, Dr Chin Hoong Fong, Bioversity International Honorary Fellow and iconic professor emeritus of Universiti Putra Malaysia...