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Impact of Climate Change on Tea Production in Malawi – Review of a Workshop
Over the past few years, the Malawi tea industry has seen a decrease in production mainly because of erratic rainfall, which has led to either floods or droughts.
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.
“One cow” program can cut poverty and pave the way for lower ‘hoofprints’ too
A new study shows that Rwanda’s One Cow per Poor Family program can significantly cut food insecurity – and with improved cattle feeding, it can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity too.
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.
Join the internal activities to celebrate CIAT’s 50th anniversary
Fifty years of CIAT. Five decades of collective enthusiasm to improve farmers’ livelihoods and food security in the tropics. Everyone at CIAT has been involved in the goal of advancing each day in fulfilling the institutional mission, some take longer, others less....
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.
Scientists make a splash with urine experiment
Pastureland is like a leaky toilet when it comes to nitrogen, but fixing the leak could be one of the next big things in sustainable agriculture.
Sink it or lose it: the carbon trade-off
New studies released by CIAT and partners show that, given the vast amount of carbon stored our soils, small management changes could have tremendous impacts, offsetting greenhouse gas emissions.
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.