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Our Vision:
Agricultural biodiversity nourishes people and sustains the planet
Our Mission:
Deliver scientific evidence, management practices and policy
options to use and safeguard agricultural biodiversity to attain
sustainable global food and nutrition security
BioversityInternational/P.Lepoint
3. Challenges:
• Reduce double burden of
malnutrition
• Increase productivity and
reduce risk
• Adapt to changing climate
• Address shrinking diversity
Credit:BioversityInternational/A.Gupta
4. Challenge: reduce double burden of malnutrition
• Globally over twice as many people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies
as from hunger
• Number of overweight adults in developing countries tripled between 1980
and 2008
5. Solution: diversify diets
Low-income consumers have access to and eat diverse,
affordable, nutritious diets
• Improve nutrition through a ‘whole-of-diet’ approach
• Mainstream nutrition into value chains
• Develop nutrition-sensitive agricultural production systems
BioversityInternational/P.Bordoni
6. Challenge: increase productivity and reduce risk
• Over 30% of the world’s land is degraded
• 10-16% of global harvest is lost to pests and diseases annually
7. Solution: diversify production systems
Farmers and rural communities
increase productivity, enhance
resilience and improve agricultural
ecosystems, forests and landscapes
• Farm households use agricultural
biodiversity to increase yields, reduce
losses and manage risks
• Rural communities benefit from
managing diversity in forests
• Rural communities integrate
agricultural biodiversity into
landscapes to improve ecosystems
BioversityInternational/Y.Morimoto
8. Challenge: adapt to changing climate
• Up to 40% of the world will experience different climates, with
new pests and diseases
9. Solution: diversify varieties and increase seed
quality
Farm households and rural communities use a diversity of quality seeds and
planting materials
• A diversity of seeds and planting materials enhance productivity, nutrition and
adaptation
• Formal and informal seed systems deliver high quality, diverse seeds and planting
materials to farmers and rural households
BioversityInternational/T.Rastogi
10. Challenge: address shrinking food diversity
• Increasing crop yields and improving stress tolerance requires
genetic diversity
• Intensification of agricultural systems has substantially reduced
biodiversity
11. Solution: safeguard biodiversity
Policymakers, scientists and rural communities are safeguarding and
monitoring priority agricultural biodiversity
• Global treaties and conventions monitor agricultural biodiversity status and trends
• National policymakers adopt policies and programmes to safeguard agricultural biodiversity
and knowledge
• Farm households, rural communities, scientists, breeders and policymakers have
information on priority traits
BioversityInternational/D.Astudillo
13. Our Funding Partners
• CGIAR Fund
• Albania
• Armenia
• Association for Strengthening
Agricultural Research in Eastern
and Central Africa
• Australia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Bangladesh
• Belgium
• Biodiversity for Agriculture
Commodities Program
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Brazil
• Bulgaria
• Canada
• China
• Croatia
• CTA
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Estonia
• European Commission
• Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United
Nations
• Finland
• Fontagro
• France
• Georgia
• Germany
• Global Environmental Facility
through the United Nations
Environment Programme
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• India
• International Development
Research Centre
• International Fund for
Agricultural Development
• Iran
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Japan
• Korea, Republic of
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Macedonia FYR
• Malaysia
• Mexico
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Nigeria
• Norway
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russia
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• South Africa
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Thailand
• Turkey
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom
• United States of America
• World Bank
• The Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation
• The Christensen Fund
• Daniel and Nina Carasso
Foundation
• The McKnight Foundation
• Bioversity International United
Kingdom Fundraising Initiative
• Centre de coopération
internationale en recherche
agronomique pour
le développement
• Common Fund for Commodities
• Congo Basin Forest Fund
• EcoAgriculture Partners
• Global Forum on Agricultural
Research
• Global Crop Diversity Trust
• Grains Research and
Development Corporation,
Australia
• Organismo Internacional
Regional de Sanidad
Agropecuaria
• Wageningen University and
Research Centre
Hinweis der Redaktion
Photo Credits:
Top Left: Bioversity International/P.Bordoni
Top Right: Bioversity International/Y.Morimoto
Bottom Left: Bioversity International/T.Rastogi
Bottom Right: Bioversity International/D. Astudillo
Keats, S. and Wiggins, S. (2014) Future Diets: Implications for agriculture and food prices. The Overseas
Development Institute (ODI) 118 p.
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Strange, R.N. and Scott, P.R. 2005. Plant Disease: A Threat to Global Food Security. Annual Review of Phytopathology 43: pp. 83-116
Graphic Credit: FAO (2011) The State of the World’s Land and Water resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW) –
Managing systems at risk. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Earthscan/
Routledge 285 p.
Williams, J.W.; Jackson, S.T.; Kutzbach, J.E. (2007) Projected distributions of novel and disappearing climates by 2100 AD. PNAS 104(14): p. 5738-5742.
Graphic Credit: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014) Chapter 7. Food Security and Food Production System in: Climate Change 2014 – Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 82 p.
FAO (1997) The State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Food and Agriculture
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