Montreal: In the early hours of December 19, after years of negotiations, delegates from 190 countries finally reached a deal to share benefits from the use of digital sequence information (DSI) derived from genetic resources. Read why this matters for the future of our food and agriculture, and what’s next. By: Michael Halewood The context: How Digital Sequence Information
As 2022 draws to a close, the A4IP explores a round-up of this year’s highlights. Against the backdrop of soaring input costs due to supply chain issues aggravated by ongoing conflicts and climate change, research out of 2022 reflects growing demand for agri-tech and climate-tech innovations. Even in a tough year, the agri-tech and climate-tech sector is performing respectively better than industries
By: Gianpiero Menza, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT/CGIAR and Miklós Veszprémi, Consultant, Ernst & Young Representatives from CGIAR, World Farmers’ Organization, CropLife, Corteva, and EY participated in a panel at the Food and Agriculture Pavilion at UNFCCC COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt on November 8, 2022. They discussed how multi-stakeholder partnerships can address the crises of food insecurity and
Journey into the field with Project Artemis, a new collaboration putting advanced phenotyping technology in the hands of breeders and smallholder farmers. Our Land Cruiser plunges through thick dust, past goats picking at sparse weeds and Maasai herding cattle. The soil is cracked and dry, it has been over three months without rainfall. Tourists know Arusha as Tanzania’s safari capital,
The Amazon rainforest and basin are crucial for the balance of the Earth’s environmental systems that enable life as we know it. The world’s largest rainforest covers 6.7 million square kilometers and encompasses the largest network of forests and rivers in the world, housing around 10% of the world’s biodiversity and 20% of the planet’s freshwater. However, there are few
Nexus approaches help conceptualize complex human and environmental issues. The world is currently facing a multi-pronged humanitarian and ecological emergency as we grapple with the impacts of the three ‘C’s: Covid, climate and conflict. The confluence of these crises has given more urgency than ever to generating innovative approaches for accelerating sustainable development, and to safeguard the fragile gains that
It’s dinner time in the Gamage household and Sherangi, a talented home cook, has prepared a special meal in celebration of her daughter Devindri’s 18th birthday. While a few of her favourite dishes are on the table, unfortunately several are missing. Like many other Sri Lankan families, the Gamage household has had to cut their grocery list short as a
Providing the “best available science” toward low-emission food systems and thus development is among what the research sub-lever headed by Dr. Augusto Castro-Nunez at the Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture aims to do. The Low-Emissions Food Systems sublever (LEFS) specifically has a mission to develop and scale research-based solutions that contribute to transforming food and