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Unsustainable food systems: can we reverse current trends?
The impact of global crises underscores the fragility of food systems. In addition to short-term acute shocks, long-term global demographic changes...
Now reading: vulnerability mapping for forest conservation and restoration
A new article presents a vulnerability mapping model turned online tool, that contributes to science-based planning for forest restoration and...
Growing for the future: a new book on school gardens
75 contributors pooled their experiences for the newly released book “Agrobiodiversity, school gardens and healthy diets”. Case studies from around...
Cool beans: A vertical crop fit for Africa's changing climate and nutritional gaps
By 2030, higher temperatures and droughts may cut common bean production by 3-5% in Africa. Farmers can adapt by switching to climbing varieties of...
An Alliance for Trees: Why forest biodiversity is "too precious to lose"
From forest fires to COVID-19, this year has already presented grave challenges to human and planetary health. Now more than ever, forests have an...
Text mining: a new way to measure agrobiodiversity commitments
We interviewed Sarah Jones, Roseline Remans and Natalia Estrada-Carmona from the Agrobiodiversity Index team, who recently published a study on how...
Researchers build the go-to dataset for smallholder farms
Farmer input is essential to tackling global challenges of climate change, rural poverty and nutrition. A new data collection tool aims to build the...
Making gender equality integral to global agricultural research
On International Women's Day 2020, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, and the entire CGIAR community, join the UN Women’s Generation...
Female empowerment for the future of cacao
In Peru, the Fine Flavor Cacao project is securing the next generation of cacao farmers by highlighting the role of women throughout production.
Farming with Joy: How to build resilience one bean at a time
Joy Mugisha is leading the way for rural women in Uganda by conserving and promoting local crop diversity.