by Maria Eliza Villarino | Oct 12, 2017
The game-changing work of the researchers at CIAT and CCAFS, which uses big data techniques and involves working with local partners to develop climate and agricultural forecasts for farmers in Colombia and Honduras, is named a winner of UNFCCC’s Momentum for...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | Oct 9, 2017
A cacao pod. Photo by: Neil Palmer / CIAT A consortium involving the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the Rainforest Alliance, Root Capital, and the Sustainable Food Lab is gaining ground...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | Oct 5, 2017
Dr. Julian Ramirez-Villegas, a Climate Impacts Scientist, at CIAT and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Photo by: Neil Palmer / CIAT Over the last few years, CIAT, CCAFS and their partners* have been doing...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | Oct 5, 2017
A field trip to Reserva Natural El Hatico, familia Molina Durán, near Palmira, Colombia, to take carbon measurements in an area of tropical forest, as part of a CIAT-hosted workshop on REDD+. Photo: Neil Palmer / CIAT A recent tweet by the Colombian government’s...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | Sep 19, 2017
From left to right: Silvia Restrepo of Universidad de los Andes, Jan Leach of Colorado State University, Patricia del Portillo of CorpoGen, and Sally Mackenzie of Pennsylvania State University speak during a panel discussion on women in science at CIAT headquarters in...
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