by Madelline Romero | Mar 20, 2018
Photo by Madelline Romero/CIAT With the number of hydro-meteorological events such as storms, floods, heat/cold wave, droughts, on the rise due to a changing, warming climate, the world also witnesses a rise in frequency of natural disasters. Of the total damage and...
by Madelline Romero | Feb 27, 2018
Farmers in Cao Quang and Quang Thach communes in Vietnam’s Quang Binh province participated in a 3-part training activity on sweetpotato, held over a total of seven days in September, November, and December 2017. Facilitated by a group consisting of a senior...
by Madelline Romero | Feb 22, 2018
Image from Google To observe forest cover changes, Cambodia’s Forestry Administration has used satellite images at a scale of 1:250,000 (1 cm on the map equals 2.5 kms on the ground), and updating of data on forest cover resources has been done every four years. But...
by Madelline Romero | Feb 1, 2018
Plant roots are assessed for mycorrhiza, a symbiosis between fungi and roots of the plant. Photo by Madelline Romero/CIAT As Asian agriculture increasingly intensifies to satisfy food and income demands of a growing population, it meets with the reality of soil...
by Madelline Romero | Jan 11, 2018
It is an irony in the developing world that those who produce food are most often the ones that are nutritionally-deprived themselves. There are many factors contributing to this status quo, and one that the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) is...
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