Corpoica and CIAT: committed to developing a better seed collection management system

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 30, 2016

The Colombian Agricultural Research Corporation (Corpoica) and CIAT are part of a global community of practice committed to developing a set of tools that facilitate proper management of germplasm collections and respond to users’ needs, from small producers to...

Big Data for Climate Smart Agriculture in Kenya

by Daniel Jimenez | Jun 17, 2016

“This is where the rubber hits the road,” said the World Bank’s Erick Fernandes, opening the first Big Data for Agriculture Roadshow in East Africa in Nairobi, on Wednesday May 24th. Speaking to participants from government, the private sector and research...

Winter is coming

by Diana Carolina Giraldo | Jun 17, 2016

Colombia is not governed by the four seasons (summer, fall, winter, and spring). As a result of the two steps of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) over the center of Colombia, the country historically has two rainy seasons (April-May and October-November) and...

Big Data for Climate Smart Agriculture in Uganda

by Daniel Jimenez | Jun 16, 2016

More and more conferences and workshops use social media for live reporting. Take a look of our coverage in this Storify: [View the story “Uganda- Big Data for Climate Smart Agriculture ” on...

Selection of Forages for the Tropics – the SoFT Tool

by Megan Zandstra | Apr 14, 2016

More than the 70% of the total area of agricultural land in developing countries is used for livestock feeding. Worldwide, there are 3.4 billion hectares of grazing land, representing more than a quarter of world land use. Research shows that there is an increasing...

An eye on deforestation: Terra-i goes to Asia

by Georgina Smith | Feb 23, 2016

Terra-i – the tracking database which flags deforestation – is going to Asia. The online mapping tool has checked the pulse of habitat health in Latin America since 2012, transforming real-time data every two months into habitat-change maps. Now, it will...