by Sylvia Pineda | Apr 4, 2019
By: Rosemary Nzuki A team of experts met at a joint policy seminar for the Malabo Montpellier (MaMo) Panel at the African Development Bank (AfDB) headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire where Dr. Adebisi Araba, CIAT’s Regional Director for Africa, was among the...
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...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Mar 27, 2019
A series of webinars on climate change and agriculture allowed a panel of scientific experts and more than 100 journalists to discuss how to cover these stories in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Southeast Asia. The series featured scientists from the...
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...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Mar 11, 2019
By 2040, rainfall on wheat, soybean, rice and maize will have changed, even if Paris Agreement emissions targets are met. Projections show parts of Europe, Africa, the Americas and Australia will be drier, while the tropics and north will be wetter. Even if humans...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Mar 8, 2019
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) today announced a five-year project that will use satellite imagery to address environment and development challenges across the Amazon...
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