in situ 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...
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...
Your help needed to improve online data on agricultural biodiversity
How can we better gather, organize and make agricultural biodiversity data available so it can be used to inform research and policy? The Global...
Crop wild relatives – are they going to end up like the dodo?
Many crop wild relatives are at risk of extinction. How to safeguard and use them was the theme of a side event held during the Plant Treaty Governing...
Rural Bhutanese farmer Pema faces climate change with a cornucopia of agricultural biodiversity
Rural women are integrally connected to all aspects of local biodiversity – as users, custodians and agents of change. On the occasion of the...
Uzbek farmers get a livelihood boost from local fruit tree conservation
After five years of activity, an impact assessment reveals a positive trend in livelihoods linked to increased conservation and use of Uzbekistan’s...
Crop wild relatives and climate change
With contributions from Bioversity International scientists, a new book published by Wiley-Blackwell explores the contribution of crop wild relatives...
Call for contributions: Access and benefit sharing - can it work for family farmers and agroecology?
In a new publication, ILEIA and Bioversity International will explore if and how access and benefit sharing related to plant genetic resources can...
Bioversity International dusts off plant genetic resources newsletters from the 1950s
Though no longer published, the Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter was one of Bioversity International’s flagship publications. Now the full set of...
PHOTO CONTEST – Women and Agricultural Biodiversity
Celebrate International Day for Biological Diversity with us by submitting a photo and accompanying story to our Women and Agricultural Biodiversity...