by José Luis Urrea | Mar 16, 2018
Authors: Ashly Arévalo, José Luis Urrea, Jacobo Arango and Juan A. Cardoso from CIAT Tropical Forages Program; Claire Horrocks and Jennifer Dungait from Rothamsted Research. Soil is more than just a base to grow plants in: it is a living system where minerals,...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | Sep 6, 2017
Soil makeup and the presence of plant disease may well determine the build-up of pests in cassava, one of Asia’s key food, feed and industrial crops, according to a pair of recently published, peer-reviewed CIAT-led studies. In 2008, a number of invasive mealybugs...
by Rosemary Nzuki | Sep 17, 2019
Written by : Peter Bolo, Job Kihara, Michael Kinyua and Dr. Fredrick Ayuke; Senior Lecturer, Land Resource Management & Agricultural Technology, University of Nairobi, Kenya. Over the years, many discussions on the benefits of conservation agriculture vis-à-vis...
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 CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 11, 2019
Authored by: Stanley Karanja Ng’ang’a, Ph.D, and Dorcas Onyango Jalang’o, M.Sc. A new study on socioeconomic factors that constrain or facilitate the adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices in Western Kenya by CIAT examines the role of soil carbon on household...