by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Oct 4, 2019
Photo credit: G.Smith/CIAT Not a new: agriculture is not an exclusive business from rural areas. For that reason, several years ago, CIAT began to respond to the need of building an inclusive and resilient food system in one of the most important cities in Colombia:...
by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Jul 30, 2019
Written by: Anna Whitton, Sandra Aronson & Lisa Gerbal More and more we are hearing that the food system is ‘broken’ – many people aren’t getting enough to eat amidst plenty, more are eating too much when they ‘know’ they shouldn’t, and most aren’t eating the...
by Rosemary Nzuki | Jul 11, 2019
All through her schooling life, Christine was convinced she was going to study Economics and Finance. She was sure that this would be the solution to growing the economy of Kenya. It naturally followed that, for her undergraduate studies, she enrolled for a Bachelor’s...
by Augusto Castro | Nov 21, 2017
Augusto Castro-Nuñez, a researcher on sustainable food systems at CIAT. Photo by: Neil Palmer/CIAT The below is an excerpt of Augusto Castro’s op-ed published on Devex: The scene remains vivid in my head. People packed the hall outside the plenary where...
by Natalia Gutiérrez | Dec 22, 2016
CIAT and Heifer International recently expanded their collaboration on the LINK methodology to Asia. In line with Heifer’s new strategy, the common work focuses on value chain development and inclusion of farmers’ owned organizations into business-related activities....