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@Jacobo_ABC, leader of the #LowMethaneForages Project, also moderated the breakthrough session “Forage-based strategies for reducing enteric methane” at #GGAA2025, highlighting the power of improved tropical forages to reduce livestock emissions and build climate-smart systems🌱
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Once every ten or so years, La Via Campesina hosts a Nyéléni Forum. This year, it's in Sri Lanka, with deep questions about trade, solidarity, food, justice and land on the table. Follow along here viacampesina.org/en/nyeleni-…
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We’re proud of @IITA_CGIAR's Dr. Mercy Elohor Diebiru-Ojo, 2025 Africa Food Prize laureate 🎉👏 Her pioneering #SAH technology for cassava & yam is transforming seed systems, empowering farmers, youth & women, and tackling food insecurity across Africa. on.cgiar.org/4nz5ekH
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Explore one of the latest research papers authored by Alliance researchers.
Beillouin, D.; Jones, S.; Rapidel, B.; Estrada-Carmona, N. (2025) Beyond yields: A systems approach is essential for reconciling agriculture and biodiversity.
hdl.handle.net/10568/176214
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30 Aug 2025
Closing gender gaps in agriculture could increase yields, improve food security, and boost rural economies. Join us @TheAGRF for an exciting discussion on 📅 Sept 3.
Discover new stats and emerging trends in agrifood systems.
➡️bit.ly/AWARDatAFSF2025
#AFSForum2025, #GenderinAg
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29 Aug 2025
Fonio, teff, baobab fruit, pulses like bambara groundnut and other #ForgottenCrops offer immense nutritional and environmental benefits.
It's time to reclaim Africa's agricultural heritage and unlock its vast potential to transform the continent's agrifood systems.
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🌍 Will you join #AFSForum2025? 🗓️ Sept 4 is about climate action: Masterclasses on investment, discussions on empowering youth, and more. 📢Hear experts share insights and solutions to accelerate transformation across the continent. 🔎 See the agenda!👇 allbiociat.org/46a4GLY
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Walungu, S.Kivu, DRC | The #B4WEProject raised awareness on hidden forms of #GBV in farming.
💬“When men control harvest profits without helping in the field, it’s also violence.”
👏Community engagement was encouraging, with women’s empowerment in the bean value chain emphasized.
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27 Aug 2025
📅 Mark your calendar for the First @FAO Global Exhibition: From Seeds to Foods.
Join us in Rome, Italy for a journey of discovery along the value chains of field crops, horticulture, livestock, forestry and fisheries.
#Seeds2Foods with @Roma 👉 fao.org/seeds-to-foods/en
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📢🌍 4 days until #AFSForum2025 in Dakar! 🤝 We’ll join leaders and innovators to accelerate sustainable food systems in Africa, with youth and entrepreneurship at the center. 💡🎯 Stay tuned for insights on science-based, lasting transformation. 👇 allbiociat.org/4oRLjyP
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Three years ago, Bioversity and CIAT formed an Alliance to deliver research for sustainable, resilient & nutritious #FoodSystems. 🌎🌱
What does this mean for the people at the heart of food systems?
Find out in our Annual Report: 📚 bit.ly/3MA1Xk4
#PeopleinFoodSystems
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Bioversity International & CIAT Library retweeted
New! 📙 Global monograph of wild #banana species 🍌 summarizing the life's work of taxonomist Markku Häkkinen, the world's foremost expert on these seedy specimens.
View this colorful catalogue via the global network on all things banana, #Musanet 👉 musanet.org/the-wild-bananas…
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❗Food and land use systems are a major source of #GGE and a driver of biodiversity loss, while millions of people are not yet food secure and nutrition-related diseases are widespread.
👉🏽 bit.ly/3WBNpn0
#FABLEconsortium @IIASAVienna @BiovIntCIAT_Lib @UK_CEH
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🎉It's #AllianceScienceWeek! Our scientists have gathered to share ideas and innovations at our Americas hub in #Colombia for the first time since the pandemic.
🤝We look forward to a productive week!
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📘 #FABLEconsortium special feature: participatory, integrated approach to transforming food & land-use systems in 12 countries. View the collection 👉 link.springer.com/journal/11…
@IIASAVienna @BiovIntCIAT_eng @UK_CEH @SpringerNature
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26 Jan 2023
Job opportunity | Postdoctoral Research Position: Nature-Positive Food Production with @EATforum, deadline 31 January 2023 | more information 👉 buff.ly/3GGAFFT
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Frontline remote sensing tool to locate hidden traits in root and tuber crops @BiovIntCIAT_eng @eia2030 @CGIAR_EiB @CGIAR_Data @IITA_CGIAR
Frontline remote sensing tool to locate hidden traits in root and tuber crops #comment #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-plant/ful…
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Bioversity International & CIAT Library retweeted
19 Jan 2023
Around the world, the work of #IndigenousPeoples and local communities supports the pollinators we all depend on.
The @ipbes #PollinationAssessment shows their practices can be a source of solutions for pollinator declines.
Learn more: bit.ly/2SQbLOz
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Bioversity International & CIAT Library retweeted
20 Jan 2023
Certification schemes in cacao and chocolate are used by consumers to award sustainable production but can be deceiving as the burden often falls on the farmers. Inclusive business and solidarity economy are alternative strategies that may be more effective (1/2)
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Bioversity International & CIAT Library retweeted
3 Jan 2023
Indigenous Trees of Kenya 🌳🇰🇪
Scientific name: Trichilia emetica
English name: Cape mahogany
Swahili: Mtimai/Mtimaji
Pokot: Korteswa
Kikuyu: Mururi
Luhya: Munyama
#Kenya
#2023
#KnowYourTrees
#trees
#Forests
#shorts
#MitiAlliance
Check out: miti.co.ke/shop
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