Dr. Marleni Ramirez, Regional Director for Bioversity International’s Americas Office in Colombia, talks about why the rich agricultural biodiversity in the Americas is vital for our future food security.
As part of lead up to Rio+20 , RTCC highlights how work from 3 CGIAR centres to support the conservation and sustainable use of Prunus africana is improving the lives of smallholder farmers in Africa. (Photo: Bioversity/B.Vinceti).
This edition of the West African Food Composition Table is a revised version of the Food composition table `Composition of Selected foods from West Africa`, which was published in September 2010. It extends and updates the number of foods and values of…
The fifth in our series: ‘A fork in the road – meeting farmers on the road to Rio’ takes us to the remote village of Salkani, India. Here Dattatreya Hegde cultivates some 35 varieties of mango and a half a dozen types of kokum.
Dr. Joseph Jojo Baidu-Forson, Regional Director of Bioversity International, Kenya, tells us about the future he wants for Sub-Saharan Africa’s smallholder farmers.
