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Can development and conservation go hand in hand in Colombia’s Orinoquia region?
A diverse group of environmental and private sector specialists met in Bogotá last week to discuss how to achieve sustainable development in Colombia’s Orinoco region.
A different kind of scarecrow
A novel approach from Japan is being tested in CIAT fields with the goal of enabling rice farmers in Colombia and Latin America to make quick, wise, and exacting decisions about their crops based on real-time agricultural data.
By breathing new life into dormant data, we can see the future
Uber disrupted taxis; Tinder disrupted dating. It’s about time we disrupted food.
Yes, efforts to reduce deforestation and build peace can take the same road
What can the countries who are currently fighting to slow down deforestation and the degradation of their forests possibly have in common? A lot!
Characterizing agrobiodiversity in one valley: Worlds of two ethnic minority communities, at different scales: An intern perspective
As my first time in Asia, a recent graduate of Biological Sciences and interested in the conservation of agrobiodiversity and food sustainability.
Social dimensions of a cassava production and value-chain: Why do the poor continue with unsustainable cassava production?
The International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) has been working with the University of Queensland (UQ) and national partners in Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos and Cambodia to improve the livelihoods of upland farmers engaged in the cassava value chain.
CIAT guest editor of the KM4Dev journal on ‘Open research, open data, and your development organization’
CIAT with lead guest editor Megan Zandstra coordinated the Volume 13, Issue 2 of the KM4Dev Journal on ‘Open research, open data, and your development organization: best practices in information and data management for development’. Guest Editors were Megan Zandstra, Simone Staiger-Rivas, Leroy Mwanzia, Abby Clobridge, Iryna Kuchma, Abraham Azubuike, Michelle Willmers and Nilam Prasai.
Mission: Establish thousands of resilient agricultural communities
In thirty years, the Philippines may become even more dependent on imports of rice, coffee, vegetables, and pork.
Nine ways to take climate-smart agriculture to scale in Africa
By Caroline Mwongera When I went to Northern Uganda for the first time with my research team, we weren’t sure what to expect. We were of course aware of the devastation in the war-torn area, but the full scale of the impact on agricultural production – the life line...
Enabling knowledge sharing and exchange in gender research across CGIAR: a working paper series
Gender equality is central to the three CGIAR strategic objectives of reducing poverty, improving food and nutrition security, and working towards sustainable, resilient agro-ecosystems.