The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT (Bioversity International)

In 2019, Bioversity International and CIAT joined forces to create the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a global organization building on their complementary mandates and long collaboration, to respond to today’s global challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and malnutrition. 

The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT delivers research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people’s lives. To do so, the Alliance works with local, national and multinational partners across Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, and with the public and private sectors. With partners, the Alliance generates evidence and mainstreams innovations in large-scale programs to create food systems and landscapes that sustain the planet, drive prosperity and nourish people in a climate crisis. 

The Alliance is part of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future, dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resources and ecosystem services.

Its work sits at the intersection of science, agriculture, biodiversity, climate and human development, including:

• Agricultural biodiversity & genetic resources
• Sustainable agriculture and food systems
• Climate change & environmental sustainability
• Food, nutrition & health
• Landscapes, forests & ecosystems
• Crop and plant science
• Data, economics & policy research
• Smallholder farmers and rural livelihoods
• Gender, youth & social inclusion
• Digital agriculture and innovation

It maintains major genetic-resource collections, including some of the world's largest collections of banana, beans, cassava and tropical forages.