🤖🌱 Meet Bruno: the AI robot revolutionizing bean breeding in Uganda! Bruno scans fields, uploads images for instant AI analysis, and delivers faster, more reliable data—helping farmers grow better beans. 🌾🚀 Discover how tech is transforming agriculture https://allbiociat.org/4acHtLO

🌏 Start the year inspired. Bridging #Asia (quarterly): breakthroughs, field insights & solutions shaping resilient futures across Asia & the Pacific. 📩 Subscribe: https://allbiociat.org/4aiunN2

🌍 Start the year informed. The Alliance in #Africa (monthly): stories, research highlights & field insights shaping Africa’s food systems. 📩 Subscribe: https://allbiociat.org/4aeqgS9

🌋 Nicaragua, land of volcanoes and lakes, faces climate challenges in agriculture. 🌱 🔬 The Alliance develops improved beans & rice, restores landscapes, and strengthens inclusive value chains. 🇳🇮 🫘🌾🌳 Learn more 👇 🔗 https://allbiociat.org/4iZPm9y

📰 #InTheMedia | 🧑‍🌾 In Vietnam, farmers are turning to agroclimatic bulletins 📊 to anticipate pests, cut chemicals & boost plant, soil & community health.🌱✨ Even the skeptics are seeing the benefits of this smarter plant health approach. 💡 🔗 Read more: https://allbiociat.org/4pBBYem

🧬🌱 Natural mutations have shaped today's crops, from resilient rice to sweet almonds.💡 CRISPR allows scientists to adapt existing genetic pathways. 🔬 Unlike GMOs, CRISPR doesn’t add foreign DNA: it fine-tunes what’s there. 👇 Discover its potential! https://allbiociat.org/4iRNfo7

🌱 In Cameroon, the My Farm Trees platform shows how digital tools + local governance can accelerate restoration and strengthen seed value chains with co-financed nurseries, carbon-market incentives, and technical support 💼 👇 https://allbiociat.org/48NAnL4

#2025Highlights |🌎🌱In Caquetá, researchers studied traditional soil conservation using an ethnoecological approach to analyze human–nature interactions as the basis of appropriate, human-centered solutions. 👇 Discover this approach and its outcomes! https://allbiociat.org/3MEFvtO

#2025Highlights | 🌿🚌 What's an 'agrosustainable campus'? In Palmira, our new sustainability strategy ensures that every activity on our campus promotes conservation, efficient use of natural resources , and respect for ecosystems. 👉 See how! https://allbiociat.org/3XTcrBh

📰 #InTheMedia | 🌱 “Soil health is a collective responsibility,” reflects Alliance scientist Manoj Kaushal in The Star. ✍️ He explains how climate and soil are deeply linked—and why improving one strengthens the other. 🔬🌍 🔗 https://allbiociat.org/4iRy4v6

#2025Highlights | 🦐✨Have you heard of Camharina from Tumaco, Colombia? Sisters Jaqueline and Yesi saw an opportunity in the piles of discarded shrimp shells, creating a nutrient-rich flour that now reaches Cali, Medellín, and Bogotá. Read their story!👇 https://allbiociat.org/4nSKa9f

#2025Highlights | 🍛⏳Long cooking time has caused a decline in bean consumption. 🌍 Yet, the Rapid-Cooking Bean Project is harnessing technology make it easier for communities to enjoy traditional, nutritious bean dishes across East Africa. See how!👇 https://allbiociat.org/4lcyPPX

💫 As 2025 comes to a close, we wish you all a happy holiday period and a great start to 2026. 🙏 Thank you for supporting our mission and vision this year, and we look forward to continuing to collaborate and share our work to come! 🎉

🌿 Zambia, land-linked to 8 countries, is a leader in seed production. 🌍 🔬 The Alliance supports climate-smart farming & nutrition-focused crops. 🇿🇲🫘🍠 Learn more 👇 🔗 https://allbiociat.org/4p1RhvW

#2025Highlights | 💡 Explore the field diary that tracks our expedition to hunt Cassava Witches' Broom in French Guiana. 🌎🕵️‍♀️ The journey, collection, analysis, and diagnosis: follow their adventure to protect this key crop. 🍠🧬 https://allbiociat.org/4pODRV5

🌍 The Alliance convened a media roundtable in Kenya with 30 leading science and agricultural journalists. 💡The dialogue positioned the Alliance as a thought leader on climate, nutrition and agri‑innovation, strengthening partnerships to transform African food systems. 🌱✨

🌱 Monitor vegetation loss in near real-time! 🔍 💡Terra-i uses satellite data + AI to track land-cover changes every 16 days across the tropics, supporting conservation & resource management. 💻🌳 📊 Explore the data here👉 https://allbiociat.org/4iXR77j

🌍🍛 Africa, climate and food: How to feed a continent within planetary limits?💡 From modernized logistics to proven water-management strategies, there are solutions. 📢 Discover how the latest discoveries are taking hold across the continent.👇 https://allbiociat.org/44nJ79x

🤓 Thank you to all the master’s and PhD students who decided to join this unique opportunity! The call for internships in the Low-Emission Agricultural Projects initiative has officially closed. 🙌

🌾🍛 In Madhya Pradesh, India, school meals are becoming more than nutrition: they’re improving education, strengthening livelihoods, and reviving agrobiodiversity and food heritage. 👇 Discover how this initiative is reshaping school feeding! https://allbiociat.org/3MtP1jq

🌟 New PABRA Friends Newsletter — celebrating 30 years of impact. 🫘🌱 Three decades of work have produced improved bean varieties, stronger seed systems, and resilient value chains that boost nutrition and livelihoods across Africa. 📩 Stay connected: https://allbiociat.org/3Y0HPOk

💡🍛 In Bukavu, DRC, Véronique founded ADOR NUTRI: A nutritious, bean-based porridge that supports child health and strengthens women’s livelihoods. Originally made for her family, this shows how local innovation drives change. 👇 Explore the full story! https://allbiociat.org/48PlEQ2

👏 Mark Lundy - Alliance Research Director - celebrates the recognition of his colleague Chris Béné as one of the world’s top-cited researchers. 💡Discover their reflections on how today's profit-oriented research model impacts quality and inclusivity: alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/why-...

🌍🔥 Solar stoves save fuel and reduce emissions, yet families stick to old habits. A recent study reveals that behavioral change needs more than gadgets: it needs education and community engagement. 👇 Explore the study's findings! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajae.70026

🗓️ As 2025 closes, we’re reflecting on five years of unprecedented change 🌍—and a growing urgency to transform food systems 🌾🔄. With partners 🤝, the Alliance is evolving to deliver science faster 🔬⚡. Explore our impact in numbers and stories: https://allbiociat.org/48Z0jDX

🎉💭 Congratulations to Alliance researcher Chris Béné for recognition as one of the world’s top-cited researchers by @clarivate.com. 💡 However, Béné reflects on today's mass, for-profit research model, raising the question of quality over quantity. See why! alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/why-...

📰 #InTheMedia | Building a sustainable cacao industry 🌳🍫: the Standard Method for deforestation risk is a key step toward climate, biodiversity & traceability goals. 🎯 👇 Learn more in @WorldCocoa. 🔗 https://allbiociat.org/4prh2Xk

☕⚠️ Sustainability policy has side effects: Satellite detection confuses many sustainable smallholder farms as forest, damaging livelihoods and supply chains.🌳 📑 Discover the Alliance’s Sample Earth, providing accurate data on remote farming 👇 https://allbiociat.org/4q2lhZe

🌱👩‍🌾 Tanzania’s bean sector is changing fast. 🤝 Farmers, scientists, and partners are scaling climate‑resilient varieties and stronger seed systems. 🎥 Watch the documentary 👇 https://allbiociat.org/48Pb8IE

🌱🐄 Across Kenya—and much of Africa—livestock systems are evolving. With improved forages, farmers are confronting climate change, rebuilding soil health, and raising productivity where it matters most. 🎥 Watch the full documentary: 🔗 https://allbiociat.org/48vilP0 👇

🌱💰 Building resilience: Climate finance for livestock in #Africa! A regional training is equipping participants to unlock funding for greener, more resilient livestock systems. 🐄 See how innovation and finance are transforming agriculture 👇 https://allbiociat.org/4oGEb6U

🌱 On #WorldSoilDay, we highlight the importance of protecting the hidden stories beneath our feet: life, nutrients, and the foundation of our food systems. 🐛🌾🍠 🤔 What is healthy soil to you? 👇

🌱✨ Did you know soils keep stories hidden beneath our feet? From ancient lakes to volcanic eruptions, soil monoliths reveal the secret chapters of our landscapes. 🌋📚 On #WorldSoilDay, take a closer look at the stories written underground. 🌍🔎

🌍Africa is not on track to achieve SDG2 (zero hunger). 💡This publication explores the regulative and normative institutions that structure food systems across the continent, demonstrating how transformation can be shaped by locally defined priorities. 👉 https://allbiociat.org/48rhGy3

🌏🌊 DYK the Philippines has >7,600 islands? 🦅 Its biodiversity is extraordinary, but climate challenges are affecting food security and livelihoods. 💡 See the solutions found in climate-smart farming, restoration and digital tools!👇 🔗 https://allbiociat.org/3YeApqz

🌍🌳 Zambia’s Miombo forests are being restored with co-developed solutions that create economic opportunities and promote social inclusion. 💡 Discover how collaboration is driving change across Zambia’s landscapes. 👇 https://allbiociat.org/3MtT8fb

🌍✨ The Carbon Sequestration 2025 internship program—supported by the Bezos Earth Fund came to an inspiring close. 👇 You're still on time to apply for the Carbon Sequestration 2026 internships! https://allbiociat.org/4pmS385

📰 #InTheMedia | Citizen TV Kenya featured how My Farm Trees guides farmers to plant the right indigenous trees—supporting biodiversity, water sources and new income. 🌳💧 👇 Watch the feature to see its impact on smallholder farms. 📺✨ 🔗 https://allbiociat.org/4p8KTUa

🌟 Discover our new initiative applying IoT and AI to strengthen rice production in Peru! 🌱 The project leverages the Japanese IoT device e-kakashi and advanced analytics to monitor field conditions, predict disease risks, and optimize harvest timing. 👉 https://allbiociat.org/4oAtumv

🌱 In Kisumu and Vihiga, Kenya, soil microbes are proving to be farmers’ hidden allies—restoring fertility, guiding policy, and boosting climate resilience. 🌍✨ Discover how they help regenerate land & secure futures 🌾🔬 👇 Read more! 🔗 https://allbiociat.org/48ZR5ZL

🌏💡 Curious about the latest innovations in Asia and the Pacific, driving landscape restoration, equitable food systems, and sustainable nutrition? 🚀 Our 'Bridging Asia' newsletter is launching: Don't miss out, subscribe today! 👉 https://allbiociat.org/4arEyP9

🍛♻️What if food waste could become a source of nutrition and income?🌍 In #Senegal, Segniore Mendy is turning discarded cashew apples into climate-resilient, nutritious foods and new market opportunities.💡Discover more! 👉 https://allbiociat.org/4rr4JvC

🌎 #COP30 highlighted progress for climate and resilient food systems. 🌱 The work doesn’t end in Belém: it’s time to scale #GlobalMutirão into lasting climate action. 👉 Read the full reflection here: https://allbiociat.org/4rIIrWv

🌿 On November 27, the closing seminar for the Carbon Sequestration 2025 internship program, funded by the Bezos Earth Fund, took place. 👉✨ Explore the full research posters here: https://allbiociat.org/3MdmY7z

📰 #InTheMedia | Sintayehu Alemayehu, Climate Resilience & Adaptation Scientist at the Alliance, shares insights on Ethiopia’s livestock sector 🌍🐄 in Addis Dialogue (EBC). 🎥 Full interview on resilience & sustainability 👇 🔗 https://allbiociat.org/4inASjC

🌱 Which plants feed the world? 🥕🍅🥑🍇 Alliance researcher Steven Sotelo helped map 355 crops that support nutrition, resilience & food security. 🌍🌾 📢 Study presented at FAO #GB11 (Lima, 24 -29 Nov 2025). 🔎 Full study 👇 🔗 https://allbiociat.org/3LZEk81

🌱 In Burundi, 80% of people farm the land. 🧑‍🌾 🔬 The Alliance supports biofortified crops, seed systems & restoration for resilient food systems. 🫘🌿 Learn more 👇 🔗 https://allbiociat.org/4pCyMPo

🚀 Be the first to receive the stories that are transforming Asia and the Pacific. 🌏 Subscribe to Bridging Asia, the Alliance’s new newsletter, and discover how science and innovation are building resilient futures. 👉 https://allbiociat.org/BridgingAsiaSocial

🌎 At #COP30, Wendy Francesconi highlights that 1B hectares of farmland are degraded. 🎥 RAIZ offers a path to healthier soils, stronger food systems & climate-resilient agriculture. 👇

📰 #InTheMedia | 🌍 PEPA-AI is transforming African agriculture 🌱 Governments can now access rapid evidence for smarter policies, resilience & farmer support. 👩🏿‍🌾📊 💡A true game-changer. 🔗 https://allbiociat.org/4o7Cdfw