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The road to publishing scientific papers: a successful case for the DAPA team at CIAT
Scientists at CIAT constantly face the challenge of complying with the requisite to make their research widely diffused.
DAPA-Linking Farmers to Market’s article wins an award from Banco de la República
CIAT’s Linking Farmers to Market’s (LFM) article, written by Rafael Isidro Parra-Peña (LFM-CIAT), Mark Lundy (LFM-CIAT) and Barry Reilly (U. of Sussex), has received an award from the Banco de la República. Therefore, their research paper will be published in a...
New study calls for shift to pre-pregnancy nutrition, to drive down stunting in Rwandan children under two-years-old
A new scientific report calls for a shift in interventions to tackle malnutrition in children in Rwanda under the age of two.
Selection of Forages for the Tropics – the SoFT Tool
The need for information on forages for specific climates, soil types, farming systems, and animals is enormously important to mitigate feed shortages and improve natural resource management.
“I’m standing on the shoulders of giants” – CIAT scientist wins Hugo de Vries Award
CIAT’s Colin Khoury has received the 2016 Hugo de Vries Award for his landmark doctoral thesis on changing human diets and the importance of wild plants to global food security.
GCARD3: Will we be left behind?
At this year’s Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD3), Mark Holderness, Executive Secretary of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research, closed the 5th – 8th April meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, themed: “No one left behind,” by noting: not if we go together. For the first time, science and society have come together to align national and international objectives across a set of themes, he reflected.
Low-income communities need more affordable and nutritious food
A research project tackling malnutrition among vulnerable populations in Kenya and Uganda is launched in Nairobi today.
Chocolate meltdown: feeling the heat
That melt-in-your-mouth chocolate egg you savored this Easter might face a different kind of meltdown in future, researchers warn.
Identifying water sources for smallholder farmers with AGRI
AGRI (Alternatives of Water for Agriculture, by its Spanish acronym) is a geographic information system (GIS) tool that aim of providing support for decision making in identifying suitable water sources for small drip irrigation systems
Transforming Rwanda’s missing climate data into information for farmers
Launched today, World Meteorological Day, the four-year Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture is an initiative by the Rwandan government and partners to provide nearly a million farmers with timely access to essential climate information services in order to manage...