Taming heat stress – climate change adaptation of pig and dairy sector in Uganda

by CIAT Comunicaciones | May 6, 2020

Pig production is an important source of livelihoods for many smallholder farmers in Uganda. Authors: John Mutua, Birthe Paul, Mireille Ferrari (ILRI) and Rosemary Nzuki, Global heat stress is a growing problem that stands to impact health, livelihoods and the very...

100 years since the birth of Armando Samper Gnecco

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Apr 9, 2020

Armando Samper Gnecco (Center) at the celebration of 25th anniversary of Cenicaña, on September 6, 2002, in the company of the research center directors. Photo: courtesy Cenicaña. On a day like today, on April 9, 1920, Dr. Armando Samper Gnecco was born in Bogotá,...

Validating Wellbeing in the Brazilian Amazon

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Mar 25, 2020

SPI validation meeting with quilombola communities. Photo: Vivian Zeidemann By: Vivian Zeidemann Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, around 290 quilombolas (Afro-Brazilian communities) and small groups of people living along the river side (hereafter riverine communities)...

Helping Lake Tana fight the Water Hyacinth menace

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Mar 11, 2020

Lake Tana besieged by the deadly hyacinth. Authors: Lulseged Tamane and Wuletawu Abera Lake Tana is the most important freshwater lake in Ethiopia, holding up to 50% of the country’s water and serving as the main source of the Blue Nile, which provides valuable...

With 30,000 surveys, researchers build the go-to dataset for smallholder farms

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Mar 9, 2020

Farmer input is essential to tackling global challenges of climate change, rural poverty and nutrition. A new data collection tool aims to build the biggest open-access dataset of its kind for development and research Top-down projects for improving the lives of poor...