CIAT regrets the passing of doctor Michael Thung

by Sylvia Pineda | Jul 30, 2019

It is with deep regret that we have learned of the passing of CIAT emeritus Dr. Michael D.J. Thung, an Indonesian national who worked as a post-doctoral scientist at CIAT’s cassava and bean programs in 1975. In 1978, he joined full time the bean program, where he...

The Champion Who Identified Innovative Opportunities in Honduras

by Sylvia Pineda | Jul 24, 2019

CHAMPIONS OF CIAT The Champion Who Identified Innovative Opportunities in Honduras By Sylvia Pineda | Jul 24, 2019 Jefferson Valencia, research hydrologist at CIAT, is a champion of science for advancing the development of technologies to facilitate the proper...

CIAT acknowledges the scientists who published in JAE

by Sylvia Pineda | Jul 23, 2019

Due recognition deserve the scientists conforming the impact evaluation team of the Cassava Program at CIAT, who achieved the largest number of downloads during 2017-2018 of the paper: Household Determinants of the Adoption of Improved Cassava Varieties using DNA...

CIAT, CAAS establish Beijing joint lab and expand scientific cooperation

by Sylvia Pineda | Jul 9, 2019

By: Dindo Campilan and Nguyen Tra My In further strengthening scientific cooperation, CIAT and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (CAAS) is establishing a Joint Laboratory in Advanced Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in Beijing. The Letter of...

Agricultural mechanization is a key input for the CIAT Rice and Bean Programs

by Sylvia Pineda | Jul 8, 2019

Manual labor, machinery, and equipment are essential agricultural inputs; they are so critical that in their absence, agricultural food production would not be possible. Under some circumstances, what hinders crop production is having no access to enough machinery to...