An Alliance for Accelerated Change. Food system solutions at the nexus of agriculture, environment, and nutrition: Strategy 2020–2025

In its 2020-2025 strategy, Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, one of the key levers is making agricultural and tree diversity available and safeguarding it for the diverse needs of food system actors. The Alliance aims to promote the use of biodiversity for food and agriculture to improve nutrition by ensuring that a wide diversity of nutritious, economically viable, and affordable species and varieties are available and effectively commercialized and promoted in the food system; increase crop yields while enhancing the agroecosystems in which they are produced; shape landscapes to create positive synergies between wild and cultivated lands; and improve environmental integrity while reducing poverty and gender inequality. One of the strategies that the Alliance will use to achieve these objectives is through building an enabling environment for conservation and use of biodiversity for food and agriculture through support for national-level implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture’s multilateral system of access and benefit sharing and key policy interventions such as seed laws and incentives for growing nutritious and resilient crops.