Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition

BFN is a country-led initiative promoting the conservation and sustainable use of nutritious local agrobiodiversity in Brazil, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Turkey 🌱🌾🍈🌿

[Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition @B4FNTeam]

Popularizing #wild #food #plants🌱🌿in #Turkey. Want to know how? https://t.co/z36odG3Amw @BiovIntCIAT_eng @KIRKLARELITARIM @antalyabbint1 @ontasarim

[Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition @B4FNTeam]

https://t.co/2VJjYVdFZy

[Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition @B4FNTeam]

Learn how #forgotten #foods like🌿#moringa and Bambara groundnut🫘are making a comeback in schools in #BurkinaFaso https://t.co/sZR6iOV71s

[Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition @B4FNTeam]

Promoting Agrobiodiversity | Alliance Bioversity International - CIAT https://t.co/cWcj6e4QUA

[Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition @B4FNTeam]

Mother of Grains: what millet teaches us about biodiversity https://t.co/ngc9m3VQJZ

[Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition @B4FNTeam]

Celebrating #African neglected and underutilized biodiversity #NUS🥜🌿🌱for #schoolmeals https://t.co/pEFXHs7XFU in collaboration with #Watinoma #EcoleWatinoma #BurkinaFaso. Proud to be part of this with @sustlives @BiovIntCIAT_eng @aics_it @CIHEAMBari

[Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition @B4FNTeam]

Opportunities for all: How the Healthy Landscapes project is improving rural livelihoods in Sri Lanka. https://t.co/I7VN995HOz

[Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition @B4FNTeam]

Building back better: the ecological restoration of Sri Lanka’s Village Tank Cascade Systems https://t.co/wsZTk3lkkd

[CGIAR @CGIAR]

🔵 #Food4Biodiversity

Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition is a multi-country project aimed at conserving & sustainably managing biodiversity in 🇧🇷🇰🇪🇱🇰🇹🇷

Learn more👉https://t.co/jKCENdVuSF
Read the report👉https://t.co/WHO27wHbfs

@WWF @UNEP @BiovIntCIAT_eng @CropTrust #COP…

[Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT @BiovIntCIAT_eng]

Curious about how we can address the need for more #evidence on the impact of #schoolmeals? Learn here from Prof. Donald Bundy and other experts here👉 https://t.co/QKR28XsAIx

@R4SchoolHealth @SchoolMeals_ @LSHTM @B4FNTeam @markincolombia @RockefellerFdn

[Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT @BiovIntCIAT_eng]

The Alliance led discussions on how we can gather more evidence on the impact of #schoolmeals during the first @SchoolMeals_ Coalition week.
Who benefits and how? Read on 👉 https://t.co/QKR28XsAIx
@R4SchoolHealth @LSHTM @B4FNTeam @markincolombia @RockefellerFdn

[Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition @B4FNTeam]

How can a board game promote agroecology? Experts experience the Happy Family Board Game at the 2022 Tropentag Conference https://t.co/O8XBOgYP5h

[Saskia Osendarp @OsendpNutrition]

“This new paper is a game changer. In particular, our failure to nourish the youngest will undermine public health and haunt us socially, economically, environmentally and politically down the generations.” @l_haddad on the new Lancet GH estimates of #micronutrient deficiencies.

[Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT @BiovIntCIAT_eng]

Hear directly from our #youth to discover how local agrobiodiversity can improve school meals🎒🏫 & secure balanced healthy diets🍊 #talkschoolmeals

📅12 October
🕓 12:15 CEST
Join virtually👉https://t.co/EUoMumiNNA
🤝@CGIAR @kalromkulima @IIRR @DepEd_PH 📷 c/@B4FNTeam

[Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT @BiovIntCIAT_eng]

So where's the evidence? 🔬 With Turkish research partners, we documented the nutrient content- from iron and Vitamin C to phenolic compounds (📊graph below)- of 39 priority wild plant species.
Explore the full results in @Sus_MDPI 👇
https://t.co/Rc9oA3jXDR
#foraging #OpenAccess

[Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research (PAR) @agbiodiversity]

Cameroon: The project exposing city kids to nature and agriculture

"We need to give them a culture other than that of the ordinary school. We must add to the school"

Read more:

https://t.co/Bc1w63SC84

[Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition @B4FNTeam]

AGRA’s Green Revolution Has Failed. More support for promoting Africa unique #food #biodiversity and #food cultures https://t.co/QRm0GTrVpf via @Juliussigei

[Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition @B4FNTeam]

@BiovIntCIAT_eng @FAO And check out contributions on #neglected and underutilized #fruit and #vegetables from the @B4FNTeam from #Kenya and #Brazil thanks to @kalromkulima @ACIARAustralia @mmeioambiente

[Juan Lucas Restrepo @jlucasrestrepo]

Our latest book with @FAO on "Public food procurement for sustainable #foodsystems & #healthydiets" is out and we are very proud!

Read more on how #schoolmeals can transform community food production, consumption & markets.
https://t.co/MoshIpVuCs
@CGIAR

[Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT @BiovIntCIAT_eng]

Just published! 📗| Public Food Procurement, such as #schoolmeals, has exciting potential to transform community food production, consumption & markets.
🍽 Read the Alliance/@FAO book "Public food procurement for sustainable #foodsystems & healthy diets"👇
https://t.co/iXWG7TrPgo