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CIAT joins the seed party at the North Pole
With the shipment of 31,550 bean seeds, CIAT joins in the celebration of 10 years of operation of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, in Svalbard, Norway.
From observation to action: How Terra-i’s near-real time monitoring of forest cover loss will support conservation efforts in Southeast Asia
The Cambodian government is looking into the possibility of Terra-i as a forest cover change monitoring tool in the country. Terra-i is the only tool that is global in scope and yet can be calibrated according to a country’s specific context. A near-real time monitoring system, Terra-i is able to support immediate ground action by providing information to forest rangers and provincial authorities on the state of the forest, as well as on looming encroachment.
Brazilian rice needs to toughen up for a dry future
Rice crop improvement needs to adjust for harsher droughts, a new study says.
Producers from Caquetá in Colombia commit to conserving and restoring their natural landscapes and to improving the sustainability of their livestock raising systems
The Sustainable Amazonian Landscapes (SAL) project closed the year with a voluntary agreement with the producers who stand to benefit from the project for the conservation, protection, and restoration of forests and sources of water on their farms.
Opinion: How to make climate negotiations equitable, efficient and evidence-based | Medium
Augusto Castro-Nunez proposes a novel way to negotiate climate adaptation targets.
Opinion: Yes, we can still have chocolate in 2050 | Medium
Christian Bunn, Andy Jarvis, Peter Laderach and Mark Lundy debunk news that chocolate will become extinct in three decades.
At the vanguard of Big Data to defeat hunger in the world
The digital transformation of economies and societies in recent years has opened new, important possibilities for agriculture. In this context, we see the emergence of CGIAR’s Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, which aims to positively transform agricultural research, helping to generate powerful data management innovations that can revolutionize agriculture in developing countries.
Let’s not blame it on the cow!
A research carried out in the Animal Nutrition Laboratories of CIAT studied forages that improve animal productivity and reduce methane emissions in two municipalities in central Nicaragua.
Cupping Fair Trade Coffee Impact
We have prepared a policy brief highlighting our findings and recommendations regarding the effect of the Fair Trade Certified in the livelihoods and empowerment of coffee farm workers in large farms, and independent smallholder producers
In Bellagio, experts devise a global system to stop crop diseases in their tracks
CIAT scientist Monica Carvajal is convening a gathering of experts from around the globe and from various disciplines to develop a global crop disease surveillance system. The meeting will take place at the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy.