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International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Climate adaptation & mitigation

Food crises continue to plague the African continent, driven by conflict, climate change, and econo…

ILRI annual report goes online

CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

ILRI has published its annual report for 2018, and for the first time in its…

Conference on Advances in Classical Breeding and Application of Modern Breeding Tools for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa

CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Food security
Nutrition

Plant breeding provides sustainable options to increase domestic food supply and dietary diversity i…

Scaling up sustainable forestry projects key to attracting finance

CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Continuing this new interview series on inclusive landscape finance, we hear from the corporate sect…

Reversing ‘dangerous decline’ of nature requires global initiatives to engage both men and women

CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Biodiversity
Gender equality

Our planet is in the midst of an ecological emergency, according to several recent reports. Deter…

Forest finance partnerships more productive than competition

23.05.19

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Benjamin Singer of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat shares his views on incl…

In an era of mass extinction, who decides which species to save – and how?

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

23.05.19

Biodiversity

Wednesday, 22 May, is the International Day for Biological Diversity, and following the damning IPBE…

Possible pathways for development in Africa: What's missing?

23.05.19

Biodiversity

This week the world marks the International Day for Biological Diversity. Coming on the heels…

Seeing the forest, not just the trees

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Nature-based solutions such as ecosystem restoration will play an indispensable role in addressing c…

G20 agriculture ministers agree to cooperate on promoting digital technologies for more efficient food systems

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

At their May 11-12 meeting in Niigata, Japan, G20 agriculture ministers agreed to cooperate in prom…

Tracing maize landraces, 50 years later

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Biodiversity

The fascinating diversity of maize in Mexico is rooted in its cultural and biological legacy…

Recipes to the rescue

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Biodiversity
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Food security
Nutrition

Bioversity International partners with chefs, nutritionist, local communities and researchers to lev…

Our health linked to our food linked to our biodiversity

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Biodiversity
Nutrition

Dorothy Shaver, Global Sustainability Lead for Knorr, Unilever, marks the International Day for Biol…

Agroforestry at 40: how tree-farm science has changed the world

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Big data
Biodiversity
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health
Food security
Gender equality
Nutrition
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Coffee bushes in a shade-grown plantation in the Andes, Ecuador.Morley Read/Shutterstock Meine van N…

Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health

Biodiversity
Climate adaptation & mitigation

In his first blog, Juan Lucas Restrepo, Director General of Bioversity International, recognizes the…

Increasing ecosystem carbon is good for species, says new study

Climate adaptation & mitigation

It is widely assumed that land uses that increase carbon in biomass and soil to…

Behind the scenes of new BBC series “Dynasties”