Is climate-smart agriculture the silver bullet to attract youth to agriculture?

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jul 11, 2019

Cross-posted from: CCAFS The average African farmer’s age is nearly 60. Stakeholders come together to brainstorm pathways of inspiring young people into agriculture. With the average African farmer’s age hitting nearly 60 years, the sector’s stakeholders have been...

Mastercard partners with USADF and CIAT to open up new opportunities for smallholder farmers across Africa

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jul 10, 2019

USADF and CIAT provide funding and support for award-winning Mastercard solution Kampala, Uganda July 10, 2019 – Mastercard has today announced the signing of two public-private partnerships that will extend the reach of the Mastercard Farmers Network (MFN)...

Climate change and rising population put pressure on essential crops in low-income regions

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jul 5, 2019

Crops such as bananas, potatoes and cassava are essential to food security in the world’s poorest regions. By 2050, their importance will increase, but climate change and population growth will put unprecedented pressure on production. Climate change and population...

The world needs a global system to detect and halt the spread of emerging crop diseases

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 28, 2019

More than 20 percent of the five staple crops that provide half the globe’s caloric intake are lost to pests each year. Climate change and global trade drive the spread, emergence, and re-emergence of crop disease, and containment action is often inefficient,...

Increasing soil carbon improves food security and income in Western Kenya

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 11, 2019

Authored by: Stanley Karanja Ng’ang’a, Ph.D, and Dorcas Onyango Jalang’o, M.Sc. A new study on socioeconomic factors that constrain or facilitate the adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices in Western Kenya by CIAT examines the role of soil carbon on household...