The world needs a global system to detect and halt the spread of emerging crop diseases

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,...

To save biodiversity and feed the future, first cure “plant blindness”

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...

Understanding cassava seed networks to curb disease spread in Southeast Asia

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...

Sustainable agriculture and livestock for dry tropical forest conservation

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....

Hoan and sweetpotato: a sweet, budding love affair

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...