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Going against nature
In his latest blog, Juan Lucas Restrepo talks about the importance of identifying collective solutions to diversify our agriculture and thus fight...
Making local crops work for nutrition-sensitive agriculture
A new framework will guide practitioners to use a broad portfolio of crop species to bring nutrition back to the table.
Artificial intelligence helps banana growers protect the world’s favourite fruit
Using artificial intelligence, scientists created an easy-to-use tool to detect banana pests and diseases. With an average 90% success rate in...
Climate change, land and agriculture
The latest IPCC report makes clear that agriculture has enormous potential to help solve the problems climate change poses. And biodiversity, as an...
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...
Why climate change means a rethink of coffee and cocoa production systems
New research by an international group of scientists, from Inland Norway University, Bioversity International, Wageningen University and the World...
New Index outlines agrobiodiversity’s role in food system sustainability
The Agrobiodiversity Index is an innovative tool to calculate how well countries are conserving and using their agricultural biodiversity. The first...
Recipes to the rescue
Bioversity International partners with chefs, nutritionist, local communities and researchers to leverage the low-cost, highly nutritious and...
Our health linked to our food linked to our biodiversity
Dorothy Shaver, Global Sustainability Lead for Knorr, Unilever, marks the International Day for Biological Diversity with a guest blog on why eating...
Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health
On the International Day for Biological Diversity, Juan Lucas Restrepo, Director General of Bioversity International, reflects on the importance of...