News Overview

Youth in the highlands of Ethiopia have been encouraged to take up farming by participation in an Alliance-facilitated pilot scheme focused on small-scale irrigation.

Through extensive research and international collaboration, the Alliance supports work to make coffee production in Vietnam a sustainable source of prosperity for smallholder farmers

Scientists conducted a sweeping review of nature’s contributions to humans in order to present a clear breakdown of global trends since 1970. Not surprisingly, the results are grim.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing smallholder farmers’ vulnerabilities. In Kenya and Uganda, the Alliance and its partners are building networks and increasing access to market and information to strengthen farmers’ resilience.

Researchers discuss possibilities and constraints for three forms of sustainable livestock management in East Africa.

One of the challenges in managing tree resources is the long delay between planting efforts and their results, which makes it hard to learn from trial and errors. In the Philippines and Burkina Faso, the Alliance and its partners are assessing current restoration efforts using dynamic systems, an approach that helps represent long-term interactions and effects.

UPDATE: The Call for Abstracts is now closed. For the latest information on the 2nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress (scheduled for 15-18 November 2021), please click here.Despite widespread recognition of the urgent need to change the way we grow and consume our food we are far from reaching this goal. Food production remains the single largest driver of environmental degradation and biodiversity