by Sintayehu Alemayehu and Sintayehu Workeneh (PhD) Ethiopia is a home of about 15 million pastoralists and is ranked 5th in the world. Oromia region is one of the regions in Ethiopia with a large number of pastoral and agro-pastoral communities. Most of the communities in zone are pastoralist and agro-pastoralist, and therefore, are reliant on livestock as both a
On October 23, 2022, we visited Yismahu Jemere’s field in the Dangila area of Amhara region, northern western Ethiopia. Yismahu is a participant of an on-farm exploratory testing of climate resilient mixed grass-forage systems, as part of the Ethiopia Grass project, implemented by Alliance of Bioversity & CIAT (the Alliance), in collaboration with project owner Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
Cacao (the key ingredient of chocolate, also known as cocoa) is essential to the livelihoods of 40–50 million people globally, including over 5 million smallholders in tropical, developing countries. In the paper “Who Defines Fine Chocolate? The Construction of Global Cocoa Quality Standards from Latin America” published in The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, researchers put forth
En medio de cacaotales, por aquí y por allá, desde el Cesar hasta la Amazonía, resalta la figura de una mujer con sombrero de caña de ala ancha, traje blanco y en su falda cacaos verdes, amarillos, rojos y naranjas que contrastan con el café intenso que caracteriza esa taza de chocolate que se puede encontrar en la mesa de
AG 4 Future Food Accelerator calls on innovation teams from around the world that can transform value chains with ground-breaking technologies. Rome, 6 March 2023 – CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform (A4IP) is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with Banca Sella Group and its Venture Incubator, dpixel to collaborate on AG 4 Future Food Accelerator. The program aims to scale up cutting-edge innovations that can
by Juan Lucas Restrepo, Global Director of Partnerships and Advocacy, CGIAR, and Director General of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT The 11th edition of the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit taking place in San Francisco next March 14-15 2023, will bring together founders, corporates, investors and experts from the agri-food sector to discuss and showcase solutions to current global
The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT joined regional organizations in the MAPBIOMAS network to map and monitor surface water in Guyana, French Guyana and Suriname. Data will help inform public policies on land and water use. The Amazon Basin is one of the world’s largest river systems, responsible for over 15% of the fresh water entering the oceans. The rivers
Tropical rainforests are home to rich flora and fauna essential to the function of ecosystem services and regulating climate. Recent trends on deforestation in the tropics indicate that almost a third of global deforestation happens in Southeast Asia driven by both anthropogenic and natural factors; this results in devastating shifts in biodiversity and carbon emissions among mostly developing nations. In