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Announcing a new Value Chains for Nutrition project for 2016-2018
We are pleased to announce that BMZ (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development) has decided to support a brand new Linking Farmers to Markets project, namely: ‘Making Value Chains Work for Food and Nutrition Security of Vulnerable Populations in...
Beans and Other Paragons of Dietary Virtue
When the United Nations (UN) General Assembly designates an issue to be the focus of an international year, this is usually a tacit admission that people around the world tend to take the issue for granted, even though they shouldn’t. The International Year of Pulses...
Giving soils a voice
We don’t directly drink or breathe soil, so it’s often forgotten as we trample over it. Raising awareness and inspiring action for promoting and protecting our soils has been a central focus throughout this International Year of Soils (IYS). We need healthy soils for...
Climate change: Arabica coffee faces a roasting
Scientists pinpoint the world’s most vulnerable coffee zones New research gives fresh insights into which of the world’s arabica coffee-producing zones will bear the brunt of climate change. The biggest losers will be in hotter areas with long dry seasons, such as...
Graphic recording at CIAT’s internal ICT4D conference
The first time I saw graphic facilitation in-action was at a KM4Dev workshop in Seattle, Washington. While participants worked through a series of large and small group sessions, facilitator Nancy White captured major themes, questions, and ideas on a large poster...
EATxCali: Hungry for a Sustainable Food System
When I grew up, poor people were thin. Books, films and news coverage of famines perpetuated the stereotype. But today, poor people are increasingly likely to be overweight. Now it's often the rich who are the thin ones. It’s especially the case in cities, where most...
Quick and “dirty” insights from the internal CIAT conference on ICT4D
The path to progress for ICT4D at CIAT: some insights to help shape the way forward Before CIAT’s KM group engages in a deeper documentation and reflection on the experiences that were shared during CIAT’s internal conference on ICT4D, I decided to write this...
CTA and CIAT to partner with the Pan-African Bean Alliance on knowledge management
It took us some time but finally CTA, CIAT and PABRA will work together on a knowledge management initiative! Indeed, we needed more than a year to nail down the collaboration, probably because even if relatively “small” activities are promising entry points to future...
Tailor-made CSA: adapting best-bet practices for East African smallholders
Smallholder farmers are not equal. Take Susan. She is perceived as a “small” farmer in her community of Soweto (Wote) in semi-arid Kenya. She doesn’t own land. The 0.5 ha she cultivates belong to her in-laws. The average farm size in her area is between 1 and 5ha....
Impatient with Hunger
In adopting the sustainable development goals (SDGs) at the United Nations summit held last month in New York City, world leaders made it very clear what agricultural research must accomplish in the years to come. By 2030, this research must, among other things, help...