CBCGDF’s Rep Attends the 30th Anniversary of Collaboration between Bioversity and CAAS - the Symposium on Improving Food System Sustainability Using Agrobiodiversity
2018/10/5 16:16:00 本站

Currently, the sustainability of food systems faces serious challenges. The agricultural supply chain faces serious risks from climate change, and consumers from resource-intensive environments damage for agricultural products continues to increase and farmland is restricted, competition is driving agricultural producers to produce more nutritious food on the same land in a more environmentally sustainable manner. In addition, the intensification of the world’s agricultural systems has shrunk crop and variety diversity. In the face of increased pest and disease, reduced soil fertility and the risk of crop failure caused by changing weather, farmer’s choices are becoming less and less.In

 

How to change the food system through agricultural biodiversity? On September 26th, the 30th Anniversary of Collaboration between Bioversity and CAAS - the Symposium on Improving Food System Sustainability Using Agrobiodiversity, co-organized by Bioversity International and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), kicked off in Beijing.

 

As China’s leading eco-friendly NGO dedicated to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, and advocates on GOOD FOOD and ecological civilization, CBCGDF’s representative was invited by the organizers to attend the symposium and share the theme.

 

Bioversity International is part of the CGIAR, a non-profit, global research and development organization specializing in the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity. Headquartered in Rome, Italy. Its ideal is to nurture humans and maintain the earth with agricultural biodiversity.

 

This symposium reviewed the results of Bioversity International and CAAS’s cooperation over the past 30 years, from how to mainstream biodiversity, safeguard nutrition and sustainable food systems, high yield and resilient farms and ecosystems, conservation and utilization of genetic resources, etc.

 

Scientist from a number of relevant units delivered wonderful keynote speeches on opportunities and challenges in the use and conservation of agrobiodiversity, agrobiodiversity and diet, and human health, agrobiodiversity and intensive production and ecosystems. The stability was shared by Bioversity International’s “Agrobiodiversity Index”, specific case studies and best practices for the evaluation and use of agricultural germplasm resources. Some of the highlights of the symposium are now shared as follows.

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(Photo: CBCGDF)


Original Chinese article:

http://www.cbcgdf.org/NewsShow/4854/6282.html


By / Niu Jingmei, Linda