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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Decaying Belgian Congo–era maps reveal secrets of valuable African tree
07.06.18-
Biodiversity
In the dusty library of a research station on the Congo River, a decaying map…
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Preserving native maize and culture in Mexico
22.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
These indigenous farmers are custodians of maize biodiversity, growing seeds passed down over genera…
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The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook: delivering biodiversity knowledge in the information age
22.05.18-
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Biodiversity
The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook is a new framework to deliver biodiversity knowledge. Fi…
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Harmonizing crop trait data: Crop Ontology
22.05.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
Crop Ontology provides scientists and breeders with a common language that describes crop phenotypes…
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Disrupting agricultural and tree biodiversity science – a review of Bioversity International’s 2017
22.05.18-
Biodiversity
On the International Day of Biological Diversity, which in 2018 marks 25 years of action…
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How planting trees can protect cocoa plants against climate change
18.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Worldwide, areas suitable for cocoa production are predicted to shrink by up to 20-30% over…
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Uganda will use trees on farms to meet national biodiversity targets
16.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Trees on farms in Uganda are the focus of a new strategy aimed at increasing…
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Groundnut researchers in Asia move towards modernization of breeding program
16.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The first meeting of the Groundnut Network Group-Asia (GNG-A) on 30-31 March 2018 at ICRISAT-India…
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Ivorian seed producers trained in quality rice seed production at AfricaRice M’bé Research Station
15.05.18-
Biodiversity
About 30 Ivorian seed producers participated in a training workshop organized by the Food and…
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Workshop on data management in agriculture
10.05.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
PhenoHarmonIS workshop 2018 on harmonization of germplasm, phenotypic and agronomic data for plants…
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Bhuwon Ratna Sthapit Memorial Fellowship Fundraising Appeal
09.05.18-
Biodiversity
Following the passing of our dear friend and colleague Dr Bhuwon Sthapit in 2017, Bioversity…
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Art underlines the precious value of poultry genetic research
08.05.18-
Biodiversity
Art combines with science to bring the message of the capacity of the new Incubated…
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Maruti - the pigeonpea saviour
26.04.18-
Biodiversity
A direct release from the ICRISAT genebank helped revitalize the pigeonpea industry in Karnataka, In…
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Uniting efforts to enhance the use of neglected Mayan superfood chaya
26.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Rose Robitaille, Research Fellow, Healthy diets from sustainable food systems, discusses the potenti…
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Earth Day, Animal Day
23.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
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New advanced poultry facility combines art and science to boost nutrition and incomes in Ethiopia
21.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Woman farmer with her chicken, southern Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Camille Hanotte). On 26 April 2…
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Fishing with a new research method nets bountiful insights
19.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Why might fish stocks be more depleted inside a marine protected area (MPA) than…
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Injecting diversity to bolster immunity to climate change and food insecurity
16.04.18-
Biodiversity
Bioversity International’s Senior Scientist Stefano Padulosi and Principal Economist Adam Drucker …
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