Setting the climate change agenda for the world’s largest cocoa producer

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Oct 24, 2016

CIAT’s researcher Christian Bunn traveled to Ivory Coast to gather support for our initiative to make the world’s largest cocoa producer climate smart. The highlight was an invitation on behalf of the Conseil du Café-Cacao (CCC) to present our impact assessment for...

CIAT directly engages with the European Cocoa Industry

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Oct 6, 2016

l Illustrations by Floris Oudshoorn. Click to check out more of his work! “If this ship sinks, there won’t be any chocolate in Europe” – To close the European Cocoa Forum held on 15 and 16 September 2016 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, the European Cocoa Association...

Does no news mean good news for Central American cacao?

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Aug 12, 2016

No news is good news they say. According to the online Cambridge dictionary it is used “to make someone feel less worried when they have not received information about someone or something, because if something bad had happened, they would have been told about it”: We...

3 of LINK’s successful cases at Inclusive Business Model Forum

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Aug 9, 2016

CIAT’s Linking Farmers to Markets research team, with support from CGIAR’s Policies, Institutions and Markets Research Program (PIM), has given different uses to the LINK methodology over the past couple of years with the goal of constructing more inclusive and...

Announcing a new Value Chains for Nutrition project for 2016-2018

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Nov 14, 2015

We are pleased to announce that BMZ (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development) has decided to support a brand new Linking Farmers to Markets project, namely: ‘Making Value Chains Work for Food and Nutrition Security of Vulnerable Populations in...