by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 28, 2019
More than 20 percent of the five staple crops that provide half the globe’s caloric intake are lost to pests each year. Climate change and global trade drive the spread, emergence, and re-emergence of crop disease, and containment action is often inefficient,...
by Sean Mattson | Jun 13, 2019
Vanishing animals command headlines but declining plant diversity also imperils humans. Researchers and educators explain how curing “plant blindness” is essential to saving biodiversity and ourselves. Food plants are a great place to dig in. From our perches in the...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Dec 11, 2018
Cassava stem traders unload trucks in Eastern Cambodia. Photo: CIAT Cross-posted from the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) If you have a garden, you probably buy seeds from the store, or maybe even swap some varieties with your friends or...
by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Jul 17, 2018
Sustainable agriculture and livestock for dry tropical forest conservation por Erika Eliana Mosquera | Jul 16, 2018 The cotton-top tamarin monkey is just one example of the richness, in terms of biodiversity, that lives in the dry forest and is currently threatened....
by Madelline Romero | Jun 29, 2018
How sweetpotato provides better incomes for farmers in Quang Binh Written by Hang Thi Le A single parent to two children, Nguyen Thi Hoan from Village 6 in Quang Thach commune, Quang Trach district, Quang Binh province is a hardworking, open-minded farmer. Having...