Electronic scarecrows that monitor crops

by Sylvia Pineda | Apr 3, 2019

CHAMPIONS OF CIAT Electronic scarecrows that monitor crops by Sylvia Pineda | Apr 3, 2019 Satoshi Ogawa and Manabu Ishitani wanted to find a way to simultaneously monitor climatic conditions and crop performance in real-time. So Ogawa, a researcher at CIAT’s...

Using cost-benefit analysis to enhance our understanding of livestock management practices in the lowland of Ethiopia

by Sylvia Pineda | Mar 26, 2019

A new cost-benefit analysis by CIAT examines three practices for improved livestock management in Ethiopia: improved rangeland, restoration of degraded land, and fodder cropping. Preliminary findings suggest all three practices are better than business as usual and...

Paula Paz, scientific talent for a greener world

by Sylvia Pineda | Mar 20, 2019

CHAMPIONS OF CIAT Paula Paz, scientific talent for a greener world by Sylvia Pineda | Mar 20, 2019 In the last decade, there has been a significant increase in geospatial data for tracking changes in plant cover on Earth. The rapid generation of this data and the...

María Elker Montoya, champion creator of method to fight Rice Hoja Blanca Virus

by Sylvia Pineda | Mar 6, 2019

María Elker Montoya started her career as a Research Assistant at the Latin American Fund for Irrigated Rice (FLAR, for its Spanish initials) and is currently a member of the Phenotyping Platform team at CIAT. She developed a method to identify different stages of...

On International Women’s Day, let’s think about gender equality

by Sylvia Pineda | Mar 5, 2019

On International Women’s Day, Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) partnered to think about how and why gender matters in agriculture and natural resource management (NRM), and to acknowledge those women who, through...