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On March 19, 2024, at the Clarion Hotel in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT hosted a workshop on the interoperability of traceability systems and their importance in complying with the European Union Regulation on Deforestation-Fee Products (EUDR). This workshop, titled ‘Common Interests and Joint Solutions for EUDR Compliance: A Roadmap Towards Interoperability of Traceability Systems’, gathered

Held biennially, the Cacao of Excellence Awards bring together leading sensory evaluation experts and the chocolate industry to recognise and reward cacao producers who demonstrate excellence. The Awards offer the possibility for selected producers and the origins they represent to compete at the international level for the recognition of their cacao as one of the very best in the world.

In the face of adversity, smallholder farmers show incredible perseverance in continuing to sow and harvest. This is the case for a group of women in the Nyiragongo territory of North Kivu, DRC, whose unwavering determination shows the very essence of resilience. It is an unbeatable spirit, in the face of repeated shocks and uncertainty, that characterizes a group of

Experience the groundbreaking insights in the latest Annual Report of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, spotlighting 2023, the hottest year on record, where the climate crisis and conflict disrupted global food systems, heightening risks for vulnerable communities. This underscores the urgent need for resilient, transformative food systems that can adapt and thrive amidst such challenges. Discover how the

The online Demo Day showcased the achievements of the 10 innovation teams who successfully graduated from the initiative’s comprehensive acceleration program, hailing from Uzbekistan, India, Tanzania, Poland, and Egypt. In addition, the event offered insights into Uzbekistan’s innovation ecosystem via welcome remarks from project partners, a keynote address from Jamshid Abduzuxurov, Agriculture Production Department Head at the Ministry of Agriculture

On a global level, rural women face disproportionately high barriers to secure land tenure. Lack of access to and control over land and the necessary resources to use it productively pose significant hurdles to rural women’s empowerment and livelihoods. Many factors limit women’s land rights, including discriminatory policies and socio-cultural norms that favour men as landholders and heirs. To address

The submission led to an invitation from the UNFCCC to speak and present the example we noted in the submission less than three months later, at the in-session workshop on non-market approaches at the 2024 June UN Climate Meetings, otherwise known as SB 60, in Bonn, Germany. Non-market approaches (NMAs for short), are among the mechanisms referred to in the

A collaborative approach to climate, peace, and security The relationship between climate change and conflict is often described as a casual loop or a vicious cycle, where the two compound to drive vulnerability. Indeed, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region vividly exemplifies how climate change threatens stability and how instability undermines the State’s and vulnerable communities’ ability to