Alliance Bioversity CIAT Posters, Presentations, and Infographics

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    Agrobiodiversity and value chains
    (Presentation, 2025-05-20) Borelli, Teresa
    This keynote presentation explores how developing strong, inclusive value chains for agrobiodiversity—especially for neglected and underutilized species —can drive sustainable food systems and improve livelihoods. Drawing on lessons from the Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition (BFN) project, the CGIAR Nature-Positive Solutions (NATURE+) Initiative, and the EU-funded DIVINFOOD projects, the talk highlights successful strategies to link smallholder farmers, cooperatives, processors, schools, chefs, and consumers. It emphasizes the importance of end-to-end thinking, from seed systems and gender equity to market access and institutional demand. Through real-world examples across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, this keynote provides a compelling case for integrating agrobiodiversity into food value chains to support climate resilience, nutrition, and local economies.
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    Migración irregular, cambio climático y género en Guatemala: Perspectivas locales
    (Infographic, 2025-05-31) Penel, Charlotte; Madurga Lopez, Ignacio; Higuera Florez, Julian; Palou, Nohelia
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    Agroclimatic monitoring system at Alliance’s experimental campus
    (Infographic, 2025-05-23) Barrios, Camilo; Amaya, Alejandra; Arce, Daniela; Urdinola, Jaime
    At the Alliance’s experimental campus, extreme climate conditions such as droughts, heavy rainfall, and high temperatures can significantly affect both the management and the growth and development of crops. In this context of increasing climate variability, it is essential to have accessible and easy-to-use digital tools that support technical decision-making in the field. These digital tools allow for more efficient planning and management of resources available to farmers. Satellite imagery is leveraged to enable regular monitoring of agroclimatic conditions and crop status without needing to be physically present in the fields. Specifically, high-resolution multispectral images, such as those provided by PlanetScope satellites, help detect water excesses or shortages in a timely manner and assess the health, growth, and development of vegetation. This not only optimizes agricultural management but also promotes more sustainable and resilient production in the face of climate change.
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    Sistema de monitoreo agroclimático del campus experimental de la Alianza Bioversity & CIAT
    (Infographic, 2025-05-23) Barrios, Camilo; Amaya, Alejandra; Arce Gomez, Daniela; Urdinola, Jaime
    En el campus experimental de la Alianza, las condiciones climáticas extremas, como sequías, precipitaciones intensas y temperaturas elevadas, pueden afectar significativamente tanto el manejo como el crecimiento y desarrollo de los cultivos. En este contexto de creciente variabilidad climática, resulta fundamental disponer de herramientas digitales accesibles y fáciles de usar que apoyen la toma de decisiones técnicas en el campo. Estas herramientas digitales permiten planificar y gestionar de manera más eficiente el uso de los recursos disponibles para los agricultores. Para ello, se aprovecha el potencial de las imágenes satelitales, que facilitan el monitoreo periódico de las condiciones agroclimáticas y del estado de los cultivos sin necesidad de estar en las parcelas. Particularmente, las imágenes multiespectrales de alta resolución, como las proporcionadas por los satélites PlanetScope, permiten detectar a tiempo excesos o deficiencias hídricas, así como evaluar la salud, el crecimiento y el desarrollo de la vegetación. Esto no solo optimiza la gestión agrícola, sino que también impulsa una producción más sostenible y resiliente frente al cambio climático.
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    Bancos de germoplasma y el depegue de la consciencia ecológica
    (Presentation, 2025-05-14) Debouck, Daniel G
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    Review of tricot principles and data analysis workflows
    (Presentation, 2025-05-15) De Sousa, Kaue; Laporte, Marie-Angelique; Van Etten, Jacob
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    Potential of different Urochloa grass hybrids to enhance soil organic carbon stocks in a Mollisol of Valle del Cauca, Colombia
    (Poster, 2025-04-27) Rodriguez, Leonardo; Bastida, Mike; Villegas, Daniel; Prado Murcia, Madyan Vanessa; Benito, Marta; Subbarao, Guntur; Costa Junior, Ciniro; Idupulapati, Rao; Arango, Jacobo
    Increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) in grasslands is a promising strategy to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from livestock. Some Urochloa grasses with deep roots enhance SOC in acidic, low-fertility tropical soils (Fisher et al., 1994). At the Alliance Bioversity-CIAT, genetically diverse Urochloa grasses are used in breeding programs to develop hybrids with improved stress tolerance, forage quality, and reduced GHG emissions. However, deep-rooting traits linked to SOC accumulation (sequestration) have not yet been targeted. Since these improved grasses are important for sustainable livestock systems, it is necessary to explore their role in SOC storage.
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    Agriemission monitor: Database for emission data visualization in livestock production systems
    (Poster, 2024-07) Verchot, Louis; Durango, Sandra; Romero, Miguel
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    Characterization of dairy farming, feed types and management practices in Rwanda
    (Presentation, 2024-10-30) Sibiko, Kenneth W.; Munyentwari, Joseph Mbuta; Nyawira, Sylvia
    This research study is part of the LSIL-Rwanda project titled "Developing Climate-Smart Management Strategies to Improve the Sustainability of Smallholder Dairy Cattle Production Systems in Rwanda." The aim is to understand the socio-economic characteristics and the extent of adoption of improved forage grasses and climate-smart agriculture (CSA) among dairy farmers in the Burera, Nyagatare, and Nyanza districts of Rwanda. The results will be used to cluster and develop a typology for the farms, proposing appropriate improvements to enhance feed availability and milk production for better economic and environmental sustainability in the project sites. This study builds on cross-sectional survey data from a sample of 220 smallholders in the three districts
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    Principles of engagement and vision to action for transdisciplinary research and co-design in agroecology
    (Poster, 2025-04-08) Fuchs, Lisa Elena; Voss, Rachel C.; Freed, Sarah; Rietveld, Anne; Falk, Thomas; Triomphe, Bernard; Bergamini, Nadia; Dickens, Chris; Quintero, Marcela
    Living labs or living landscapes are gaining momentum as sub-national territories within which sustainable food system transformation is sought through multi-stakeholder engagement processes. In the CGIAR Agroecology Initiative, 11 ALLs were established in 8 countries. Here, ALLs are defined as multi-stakeholder spaces in which agroecological innovations can be identified, co-designed, tested, and adopted. These landscapes emerge as coherent territories that have fuzzy boundaries defined by the functionality and meaning bestowed onto them by their diverse users, who care about and are willing to take transformative action in pursuit of just food system transitions, rather than by geographical or administrative limits. ALLs respond to the common challenges that external partners face in accompanying and supporting local stakeholders on agroecological transition pathways without imposing their own views and agendas. ALLs offer an opportunity to act as transformation vehicles that foster transdisciplinary research, including the co-creation of knowledge and co-design of innovations. Principle-based engagement methods can help to support and enable locally driven transformation processes.
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    Gender transformative research from proposal writing to evaluation
    (Presentation, 2025-02-05) Nchanji, Eileen; Lutomia, Cosmas; Compaore, Eveline
    How to integrate Gender equality and social inclusion in proposal writing Where are we on the gender agenda Frameworks Diverse donor expectations Tools/guides Concrete examples How to apply Gender transformative approaches – tools and guidelines  Where we are  Gender transformative approaches – WorldFish/FAO, Gender Impact platform/GTA COP Gender transformative indicators Some concrete examples How to develop inclusive gender communication What to focus on Some concrete examples
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    Gender Transformative Methodologies CoP. Reimagining intersectionality: Institutionalization of a concept, its complexity, illusions and contradictions
    (Presentation, 2024-08-06) Feldman, Shelley; Farnworth, Cathy Rozel; Bailey, Arwen
    For many gender specialists, intersectional research represents one of the most important theoretical contributions of gender and feminist analyses. This is because such research acknowledges complexity and hierarchy, and division and difference among members of any identity category, including, but not limited, to women. Intersectional research also acknowledges and seeks to understand power as a relational phenomenon within social groups as well as between them. In practice, this means that thinking with an intersectional lens exposes how all identity categories including race, class, and gender, but also, sexuality, ability, nationality and ethnicity, and indigenous/migrant are not homogenous categories. Rather, categories marking difference refer to populations that entail relations of both oppression and domination, opportunities, and constraints. Significantly, as well, an intersectional approach not only presumes that identities are always multiple but, also, that they can only be understood as intertwined, intersecting, and reciprocal rather than as simply additive. By recognizing this complexity, an intersectionality lens asks researchers to be cognizant of within category variation, especially when generalizing across comparative cases. "Importantly, in my view, intersectional research recognizes data collection as a procedural question and exposes how, why, and what questions we ask to illuminate the kind of evidence that can respond to our research question. In contrast, I view analyses as a processual issue that corresponds to the connection between how we understand identities as social relations on the one hand, and the practices that might lead to institutional and structural transformations of these relations and environments on the other."
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    Gender Transformative Methodologies CoP. Masculinities conversation 1 - Engaging men for gender equality - tools from Equimundo
    (Presentation, 2024-11-06) Vess, Joseph; Kimonyo, Augustin; Gallagher, Emily; Bailey, Arwen
    Joseph Vess and Augustin Kimonyo, both fellows of Equimundo and members of the MenEngage Alliance, introduced and discussed a new toolkit for ‘ENGAGING MEN FOR GENDER EQUALITY IN RURAL TRANSFORMATION PROJECTS'. The toolkit is part of a collection developed under an IFAD-funded Women's Resource Rights initiative with CIFOR-ICRAF, the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT and IFPRI. In this session, Joseph and Augustin: -Introduced the toolbox -Contextualized the project context in which it was developed in Uganda -Outlined the theory of change -Introduced some tools in the box (and some other tools outside the box) -Introduced some communities, individuals and resources all working in this space -Opened a discussion on how to engage men in gender-transformative research projects in food, land and water systems
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    Gender Transformative Methodologies CoP. Masculinities conversation 2 - Engaging men for gender equality in Uganda: Navigating resistance and backlash
    (Presentation, 2024-12-06) Kodwo Mensah, Emmanuel; Mwiine, Amon; Bailey, Arwen
    "Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls, and boys. It is everyone’s responsibility”. – Ban Ki-moon. While Ban Ki-moon's statement highlights the importance of engaging ALL genders in the pursuit of gender equality, there are still many unforeseen factors that can either accelerate or impede our progress. In this session, Emmanuel Mensah shares his experience working with men and boys in Uganda to embrace positive masculinities and become agents of change for gender equality. He discusses the resistance and backlash encountered in this process and explore strategies for navigating these challenges to achieve meaningful progress. He also highlights the importance of recourse and course correction, emphasizing the need for continuous learning and adaptation in our efforts to promote gender equality.
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    Developing climate-smart management strategies to improve sustainability of smallholder dairy cattle production systems in Rwanda
    (Poster, 2024-03-01) Nyawira, Sylvia Sarah; Hoogenboom, Gerrit; Boote, Kenneth; Notenbaert, An; Mutimura, Mupenzi
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    Developing climate-smart management strategies to improve sustainability of smallholder dairy cattle production systems in Rwanda
    (Presentation, 2024-11-01) Nyawira, Sylvia Sarah; Hoogenboom, Gerrit; Boote, Kenneth; Mutimura, Mupenzi; Waluse, Kenneth; Notenbaert, An