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Does no news mean good news for Central American cacao?
No news is good news they say. According to the online Cambridge dictionary it is used “to make someone feel less worried when they have not received information about someone or something, because if something bad had happened, they would have been told about it”: We...
Tropical forages and soils labs – The doors are open for knowledge sharing
Last July, CIAT´s tropical forages and soils laboratories opened their doors to students from the University of the Amazon in Colombia’s Caquetá Department, giving them the opportunity to strengthen their capacity in the use of diverse tools and techniques.
How to move beyond technology in ‘sustainable intensification’
This blog, co-authored by Saurabh Arora, was first published on the STEPS Centre website. Sustainable Intensification (SI) promises more food from the same amount of land, while minimizing pressure on the environment. In Sub-Saharan Africa, considerable research and...
Trees on agricultural land sink four times more carbon
Trees grown on agricultural land significantly contribute to global carbon budgets, say authors in this recent study.
3 of LINK’s successful cases at Inclusive Business Model Forum
CIAT’s Linking Farmers to Markets research team, with support from CGIAR’s Policies, Institutions and Markets Research Program (PIM), has given different uses to the LINK methodology over the last couple of years with the goal of constructing more inclusive and sustainable business models.
Bean power: Finger on the pulse of a drought-resilient future
Against a hilly backdrop, Daud Bukuku examines a handful of brown beans from a large basket. The open fields behind him have just been harvested: his plot is freshly harvested. But he’s lucky to have had a harvest at all – the beans he proudly shows us didn’t crop up for everyone.
First drought-resilient, high iron beans for Uganda released
Five new bean varieties bred with high iron and resilience to the impacts of drought have been released in Uganda for the first time.
Seeing is believing: the impact of soil management
For over a decade, CIAT has tested agronomic and soil management practices in Western Kenya. From minimum tillage to integrated soil fertility management, two trials, established in 2003, are the most comprehensive picture of tropical soil health that we have in...
A team that´s bringing the Big Data revolution to agriculture
Just as CIAT scientists anticipated more than 6 years ago, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and other key international institutions now affirm that Big Data will be the driver of the next revolution in agriculture.
Terra-i team, scientific talent for a greener world
The Terra-i, which works under CIAT’s Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) Research Area, is constantly evolving, and their main goal this year is to process a larger amount of data in less time.