Making adaptation efforts actionable at scale towards a climate-smart cocoa sector

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Mar 12, 2020

Cocoa farmers are struggling with climate change effects, and the situation will not change unless adaptation measures are timely put in place. Most good agricultural practices, if correctly applied, can provide resilience against shocks and provide sustainability for...

Fighting hunger through the mapping of key food systems indicators in the 1000 poorest communes of Vietnam

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Oct 17, 2019

Blogpost by: Huong Trinh, Erin Esaryk & Huynh Tuyen Vietnam’s economy has been rapidly growing since the economic reforms of the late seventies known as Doi Moi. This drastic growth has increased food security and nutrition for many, but not for all of the...

Preparing Ghanaian cocoa farmers for changing climate conditions

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Aug 8, 2019

By Leila Serwaah Khalid and Natalia Gutiérrez CIAT collaborates with CocoaLink to help young farmers mitigate the negative effects of climate change through digital maps Ghana is one of the largest cocoa-producing countries, with over 40% of the population relying on...

Nutrition just got more affordable and accessible!

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Sep 13, 2018

Nutritious and affordable porridge flours launched to address malnutrition in East Africa By: Christine Chege and Patricia Onyango The multi-composite, safe, nutritious, and affordable porridge flours aimed at diversifying diets of consumers have been launched in...

Cupping Fair Trade Coffee Impact

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Feb 5, 2018

by Natalia Gutiérrez & Martha Del Río| Feb 5, 2018   After 3 years of the impact evaluation project “Measuring and assessing impacts of Fair Trade for All on farmers, farmworkers, and the overall Fair Trade market system” supported by the Ford Foundation and...