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Farmer science accelerates climate adaptation
A new study in PNAS addresses the challenge of climate adaptation in a way that is both scalable and targeted. Scientists demonstrate a unique...
How Transformative Agrobiodiversity Innovations help advance the G7’s agenda on agricultural development
As Italy’s G7 Presidential Agenda draws to a close, Bioversity International’s Private Sector Engagement Coordinator, Gianpiero Menza, reports on what...
Modern science meets traditional knowledge to improve crop breeding
Scientists have partnered with traditional farmers to demonstrate, for the first time, how indigenous knowledge may drive future breeding.
Harnessing traditional knowledge to wheat breeding in Ethiopia
A new study of durum wheat varieties in Ethiopia, shows the value of including farmer evaluations based on traditional knowledge into crop breeding...
Participatory research is a serious game
On a warm afternoon in a small farming village in Honduras, half a dozen farmers sit with a visitor from an NGO they’ve worked with before. They’re...
The climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too.
On World Food Day 2016, Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International, lifts the lid on a Resource Box for Resilient Seed Systems, that can...
ClimMob – a software for crowdsourcing climate smart-agriculture
A brand new Bioversity International-developed software - ClimMob - turns the research paradigm on its head and makes it easier for farmers to...
Fiat panis award for thesis research on citizen science for climate change adaptation in Honduras
During Tropentag 2016 held in Vienna, Jonathan Steinke from Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, received the fiat panis Hans H Ruthenberg graduate...
Can ancient Ethiopian wheat varieties provide resistance to stem rust?
Interviewed by Süddeutsche Zeitung, Bioversity International scientist Carlo Fadda explains how Ethiopian durum wheat offers a unique and not fully...
Ethiopian wheat offers unique source of diversity for weathering climate change
A pioneering study by Scuola Sant’Anna, Bioversity International and partners has revealed that Ethiopian durum wheat is a fresh source of genetic...