A move to improve pasture management and cut down greenhouse gases from cattle

by José Luis Urrea | Jul 12, 2018

Cows are getting more popular – and not for good reasons, but rather for looking like the new villains. Land-use change and feed production, among others, are the main sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cattle production, making livestock one of the top...

How CSA profiles are informing investments in countries

by Sylvia Pineda | Jul 10, 2018

By: Ivy Kinyua Recently, The Africa CSA summit in Nairobi, Kenya, was organized by the Aid & International Development Forum. The event brought together thought leaders at non-governmental organizations, government agencies, research institutes, private sector,...

Passion is the key to Dr. Elizabeth Álvarez’s success in the field of science

by Sylvia Pineda | Jul 6, 2018

Elizabeth Álvarez is an Agricultural Engineer from the National University of Colombia, Palmira campus. She started her scientific activities at CIAT in 1980, where she always stood out for her relentless scientific curiosity. This is the reason why, as the working...

Guy Henry: a torch bearer

by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Jun 26, 2018

Guy Henry: a torch bearer By Erika Eliana Mosquera | Jun 26, 2018 This man has the will of a flint. For those who do not know what a flint is, it is a variety of quartz, compact, and translucent along the edges, that produces sparks when struck by another flint. And...

The first three years of the Global Staff Exchange Program… what have we learned?

by José Antonio Arana | Jun 15, 2018

By Simone Staiger-Rivas and José Antonio Arana. The Global Exchange Program for CIAT staff takes place every year with the purpose of promoting integration in every research and administrative area, within the geographical areas where CIAT operates. It consists on...

The ‘unsexy’ essential to making agricultural predictive models

by Maria Eliza Villarino | Jun 5, 2018

Data cleaning includes filling missing values in data sets. Photo by: geralt (via Pixabay) Data science involves creating models that can predict the future, such as what the yields will be for the next planting season. This work, arguably, is “sexy.” There’s an...