How do quality seed systems impact food and nutrition security?

01-Sep-2022 - Food and nutrition security is a key development indicator for children’s health. However, decades of global efforts to combat hunger are proving to be insufficient in the face of growing challenges (i.e., conflict, climate extremes, and economic shocks) that have been further aggravated by the ...

Foodomics: Exploring the biomolecules that will help us get to know our food

27-Jun-2022 - Maya Rajasekharan, Senior Advisor, Strategic Program Development at the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), says that food is the single greatest determinant of human health and disease over the course of one’s life, and yet a ...

Measuring diversity from farm to fork

A new report evaluates 10 Mediterranean countries

19-May-2022 - Why measure Mediterranean agrobiodiversity? What foods comes to your mind when you think about “The Mediterranean Diet”? For most people, the term evokes strong associations with fresh, minimally-processed ingredients – olive oil, fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains, followed by ...

Crop diversity is needed today for tomorrow’s food security and nutrition

Science can help mitigate, stem, and reverse loss of genetic diversity, for better productivity, resilience, and adaptive capacity in agriculture, a new study shows

22-Oct-2021 - Although scientists have been ringing bells for more than 100 years about the decline of crop diversity in agriculture, questions about the magnitude, causes, and significance of this loss remain unanswered. A team of 15 scientists from a wide range of research centers and universities set out 18 ...

Do we need an IPCC for food?

06-Sep-2021 - The first United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), scheduled for September, could be as historic to food system transformation as the Rio Earth Summit of 1992 was to climate change. Rio sparked the creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, which has brought scientists ...

Banana industry on alert after disease arrives in Colombia

26-Aug-2019 - It might not be obvious at the supermarket, but the banana industry is fighting to protect the most popular variety of the fruit from a destructive fungus. A disease that ravages banana crops has made its long-dreaded arrival in Latin America, the biggest exporter of the crop. That's reigniting ...