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Bioversity International is a global research-for-development organization. We have a vision – that agricultural biodiversity nourishes people and sustains the planet.
We deliver scientific evidence, management practices and policy options to use and safeguard agricultural and tree biodiversity to attain sustainable global food and nutrition security.
We work with partners in low-income countries in different regions where agricultural and tree biodiversity can contribute to improved nutrition, resilience, productivity and climate change adaptation.
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Displaying 71 - 75 of 184Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability
There is an ongoing debate on what constitutes sustainable intensification of agriculture (SIA). In this paper, we propose that a paradigm for sustainable intensification can be defined and translated into an operational framework for agricultural development. We argue that this paradigm must now be defined—at all scales—in the context of rapidly rising global environmental changes in the Anthropocene, while focusing on eradicating poverty and hunger and contributing to human wellbeing.
Targeting agricultural innovations and ecosystem service management in the northern Volta basin
The Crop Ontology: a source of standard traits and variables for breeding and agronomy
The Crop Ontology is a service of the Integrated Breeding Platform (www.integratedbreeding.net) in collaboration with the CGIAR and partners and under the leadership of Bioversity international. The Crop Ontology (www.cropontology.org) provides harmonized and validated breeders’ trait names, measurement methods, scales for currently 18 crops that are used by the Breeding Management System (BMS).
Using dendroecology to determine growth rates of mahogany and cedar in community forestry in Guatemala
One of the main technical knowledge gaps for sustainable timber production in tropical forests is the lack of reliable information on tree growth, which is indispensable for defining cutting cycles and estimating harvest volumes. We applied dendroecological methods to measure and model the diameter growth (dbh) of mahogany Swietenia macrophylla and cedar Cedrela odorata in humid tropical forests of community-managed concessions in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Petén, Guatemala. The width of growth rings was determined in increment cores from 32 trees of S. macrophylla and 27 of C.
