Beans and Other Paragons of Dietary Virtue

by Nathan Russell | Nov 9, 2015

When the United Nations (UN) General Assembly designates an issue to be the focus of an international year, this is usually a tacit admission that people around the world tend to take the issue for granted, even though they shouldn’t. The International Year of Pulses...

Quick and “dirty” insights from the internal CIAT conference on ICT4D

by Simone Staiger | Oct 19, 2015

The path to progress for ICT4D at CIAT: some insights to help shape the way forward Before CIAT’s KM group engages in a deeper documentation and reflection on the experiences that were shared during CIAT’s internal conference on ICT4D, I decided to write this...

CTA and CIAT to partner with the Pan-African Bean Alliance on knowledge management

by Simone Staiger | Oct 15, 2015

It took us some time but finally CTA, CIAT and PABRA will work together on a knowledge management initiative! Indeed, we needed more than a year to nail down the collaboration, probably because even if relatively “small” activities are promising entry points to future...

CIAT strengthens partnership with Kenya

by Stephanie Malyon | Oct 8, 2015

Kenya isn’t just home to CIAT’s operations in Africa, it is home to a longstanding and successful partnership with the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) (formerly KARI). Over the years, the partners have generated major agricultural...

“White gold” beans to beat drought in Ethiopia

by Georgina Smith | Oct 5, 2015

New drought-resilient white beans – most commonly used to make baked beans – will be deployed to Ethiopia, as erratic weather threatens national production and farmers’ incomes. Severe drought in Ethiopia, Africa’s largest exporter of the bean used to make...