by CIAT Comunicaciones | Oct 10, 2019
By: Ruben Echeverría, Director General – International Center for Tropical Agriculture The news of Daniel Debouck’s retirement hit me like a 100-kilogram sack of beans falling off a storehouse pile. After four decades leading the management of the world’s...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Oct 10, 2019
Smallholder poverty in sub-Saharan Africa is often linked to sandy soils, which hold little water and are low in nutrients. A new technology may be able to enrich fields and farmers without massive investments in irrigation and fertilizer. Many farmers across...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Oct 7, 2019
With this year’s implementation of a European Union regulation that strictly limits the amount of cadmium permitted in cacao and its products, farmers and other value chain actors need to know if their cacao can be made into products that meet the food safety...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Sep 23, 2019
First inventory of restoration projects across Latin America and the Caribbean shows where the potential lies for climate mitigation and provides a compass towards reaching the Bonn Challenge ambitions through forest restoration Land restoration in Latin America and...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Sep 16, 2019
One of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change is learning to get out of its straitjacket and explore its futures, although it still does not know them well. Written by Diego Arguedas Ortiz for UCI Central America faces great challenges in its efforts to...
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