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The new Bristol for farmers

“A true picture of customs, when a shout breaks the dialogue of the lady… ‘the  Calendar’, take the 2009 Bristol Calendar, only 3 dollars!’ offers the edition of the Picturesque Bristol Almanac, otherwise known as the Moon Almanac –an orange booklet only 30 page long in which forecasts, lunar changes, the zodiacal signs, jokes, famous phrases, among other curiosities are provided” Germán Arciniegas.

Fair Trade Coffee’s Aftertaste

The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) conducted the research project “Measuring and assessing impacts of Fair Trade for All on farmers, farmworkers, and the overall Fair Trade market system.” After the third year of the project, we analyzed the data collected to assess the impact of certification on farmworkers’ welfare and empowerment in Brazil and Nicaragua. We created two multi-dimensional indexes in order to evaluate the influence that certification has on several aspects of workers’ life.

Big Data Platform, a path to improving decision making for smallholder farmers

The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) will lead CGIAR’s Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, whose objective is to take advantage of the capacities of big data to accelerate and boost the impact of international agricultural research and foster equitable rural development.

Carlos Jara, a Chilean with a CIAT passport and nationality

Now, Jarita, as he is known by his friends and colleagues, is retiring from the Center after working in the Bean Program and specifically in the Pathology Laboratory, where one of his greatest achievements was defining the differential kinds of angular leaf spot disease, which served to identify resistance genes for the creation of improved bean varieties.

An Altmetric milestone

CIAT’s 2016 publication Origins of food crops connect countries worldwide has hit a major Altmetric milestone! It has become the highest-scoring output ever for its publisher, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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