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The D4RABs project aims to transform banana monocultures by incentivizing and empowering farmers to co-design and adopt an innovative polyculture concept to enhance resilience and ecological functionality of banana landscapes. Polyculture is a farming practice that involves growing multiple crops together in the same place at the same time with different arrangements. D4RABs will promote sustainable biodiverse agricultural practices by

The VFT is an innovation by the CGIAR Regional Integrated Initiative for East and Southern Africa, Ukama Ustawi (UU) that enables live streaming and sharing of lessons from a field event with a global audience who may not be able to attend the events physically. Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT in collaboration with Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization

Senegal faces post-harvest losses which affect somewhere between 12 to 40 percent of GDP, and often result in annual financial losses of around USD 167 million. Post-harvest losses in cereals, protein crops, and horticulture have a direct impact on the country’s food and economic sovereignty, and occur at various stages of the agricultural value chain. When it comes to horticulture for

Researchers at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and their collaborators have been working on how to harness the power of the estimated 549 million Wifi hotspots worldwide, resulting in a project that used anonymized data gathered from free Wi-Fi to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on Hanoi’s wet markets during the first stage of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Andrew Wight: So what exactly are these technologies, and how are they different from GMOs? Paul Chavarriga: For gene editing,CRISPR technology allows us to get into a plant genome and change a simple gene to produce a new trait. For example, if you have a plant that’s susceptible to bacterial disease, with a knockout you can make the plant resistant

The workshop convened key stakeholders in Ghana’s agricultural sector, representing diverse institutions and key stakeholders across the country’s major agro-ecological zones: Savannah, Transitional, and Forest. The objective of this workshop was to map and profile major crops with their descriptors and fertilizers recommendations for integration into Digital AgroClimate Advisory (DACA). This mobile-based platform seeks to provide location-specific agro-climate advisories, offering

Uncovering the Root Cause of Witches’ Broom Disease in Cassava In Southeast Asia, most smallholder farmers rely on cassava: its starch-rich roots form the basis of an industry that supports millions of producers. In the past decade, however, Cassava Witches’ Broom disease has stunted plants, reducing harvests to levels that barely permit affected farmers to eke out a living. In

This initiative aims to increase farmers’ income, facilitate market opportunities, enhance agro-processing services, increase the volume of products, and create more jobs. Ethiopia, heavily reliant on rain-fed agriculture, faces significant risks from climate hazards. Recognizing this, Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI) organized a consultative workshop on “De-risking crop commodity