By breathing new life into dormant data, we can see the future

by Andy Jarvis | Aug 3, 2017

Uber disrupted taxis; Tinder disrupted dating. It’s about time we disrupted food. Because something clearly isn’t working. If a fridge can tell me exactly when a stick of celery is about to reach its expiry date, why is agriculture – something we’ve been doing...

Big Data and its need for unicorns

by Robert Andrade | Jun 1, 2017

Big Data and its need for unicorns By Robert Andrade | Jun 01, 2017 There is no doubt that big data* has become a valuable commodity for this century. A recent article in The Economist entitled Fuel of the future: Data is giving rise to a new economy states that data...

Five surprising ways people’s diets have changed over the past 50 years

by Colin Khoury | Apr 24, 2017

Five surprising ways people’s diets have changed over the past 50 years By Sara Kammlade and Colin K. Khoury Newly released interactive infographics show how the so-called “globalized diet” has emerged. They unearth a number of surprises about the foods we eat across...

The Cassava Genome Hub: Terabytes of tuberous tropical root research set to revolutionize big data for agriculture

by Juliana Knapp | Nov 15, 2016

We live in a golden age of information, with data readily available, and accessible at our fingertips. Some argue we have more information than we know what to do with. “When it comes to cassava, we are in the midst of a genomic revolution that is producing enormous...

Big data and Africa’s Green Revolution

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Sep 27, 2016

Big data will be key to Africa’s Green Revolution This article first appeared on AllAfrica. By Dr Debisi Araba “Take it to the farmer”. Those were the last words of Dr. Norman Borlaug, as remembered by his granddaughter Julie Borlaug in her opening speech at the...

New daily climate data for crop growth simulation available

by Carlos Eduardo Navarro-Racines | Aug 3, 2016

A new interface was developed to query and download future daily bias corrected data for crop growth modeling, which will help improve our understanding of the effects of climate change on agriculture.   Cross-posted from CCAFS.   Getting and handling future...