Enhancing knowledge management awareness, strategies and work plans of the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA)

by Simone Staiger | Feb 3, 2016

This blog post is co-authored by Rachel Muthoni, PABRA’s KM, monitoring and evaluation specialist The opportunity for CTA and CIAT to work together on knowledge management arose with the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) in the improvement of the network’s...

New article on data sharing and use of ICTs in agriculture: working with small farmer groups in Colombia

by Simone Staiger | Jan 5, 2016

Fanny Cecile Howland, Luis Armando Muñoz, Simone Staiger, James Cock, Sophie Alvarez When it comes to improve the decision making process of farmers, the access to and sharing of experiences and knowledge among them is a key practice for success, and Information and...

Quick and “dirty” insights from the internal CIAT conference on ICT4D

by Simone Staiger | Oct 19, 2015

The path to progress for ICT4D at CIAT: some insights to help shape the way forward Before CIAT’s KM group engages in a deeper documentation and reflection on the experiences that were shared during CIAT’s internal conference on ICT4D, I decided to write this...

CTA and CIAT to partner with the Pan-African Bean Alliance on knowledge management

by Simone Staiger | Oct 15, 2015

It took us some time but finally CTA, CIAT and PABRA will work together on a knowledge management initiative! Indeed, we needed more than a year to nail down the collaboration, probably because even if relatively “small” activities are promising entry points to future...

Geotrack mealybug invaders and more: CIAT Asia team received support from Dow

by Simone Staiger | Oct 6, 2015

When we hear Dow at CIAT, most of us think about the collaboration of CIAT’s forages team with Dow AgroSciences who work together on ensuring farmers to have the high-quality forages they need to fatten their livestock and boost their incomes. Kris Wyckhuys and his...