Bioversity International 40th AnniversaryM. Ann Tutwiler, Director General

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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

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Challenges:

• Reduce double burden of

malnutrition

• Increase productivity and

reduce risk

• Adapt to changing climate

• Address shrinking diversity

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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

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

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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

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

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Challenge: adapt to changing climate

• Up to 40% of the world will experience different climates, with

new pests and diseases

Solution: diversify varieties and increase seed qualityFarm 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

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Challenge: address shrinking food diversity

• Increasing crop yields and improving stress tolerance requires

genetic diversity

• Intensification of agricultural systems has substantially reduced

biodiversity

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

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Collaboration with Rome-based Agencies

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