When it comes to food… we can’t have our cake and eat it too

by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Sep 18, 2018

Photo credit: © reidy68 / Pixabay  Hard choices will have to be made soon about the way we eat. Are we ready for the bitter bites? Our food system is failing us! We see it every day. While almost 1 billion people are still struggling to ensure that they have enough...

SFS and M&E: Facing the pressing task of putting us on the same page

by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Sep 13, 2018

What an outcome is? What is an output? What is the difference between an outcome and the impact? Wait a minute! We don’t already know that? This is an international center, right? Sometimes thinking that I already know something could be more dangerous than to ask...

When understanding drivers of food systems becomes a planetary priority

by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Aug 3, 2018

Photo credit: © TBIT / Pixabay  The shift from undernutrition to overnutrition is the fastest and most dramatic societal transformation ever observed in human history. Even the invention of electricity or the introduction of railway transport did not have such...

Sustainable agriculture and livestock for dry tropical forest conservation

by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Jul 17, 2018

Sustainable agriculture and livestock for dry tropical forest conservation por Erika Eliana Mosquera | Jul 16, 2018 The cotton-top tamarin monkey is just one example of the richness, in terms of biodiversity, that lives in the dry forest and  is currently threatened....

Guy Henry: a torch bearer

by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Jun 26, 2018

Guy Henry: a torch bearer By Erika Eliana Mosquera | Jun 26, 2018 This man has the will of a flint. For those who do not know what a flint is, it is a variety of quartz, compact, and translucent along the edges, that produces sparks when struck by another flint. And...