BMS – A key system for CIAT breeders

by Sylvia Pineda | May 22, 2018

Last April, a BMS (Breeding Management System) workshop was held, as a joint effort among Cécile Grenier (researcher at CIAT’s Rice Program), representatives from the Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP), and CIAT’s Data and Research Methods team. The workshop was...

Learning more about soil ecology

by Sylvia Pineda | May 16, 2018

  Last April, the Soils and Landscapes for Sustainability Research Area at CIAT, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota (UMN) and the National University of Colombia at Palmira, held a training course entitled “Soil Ecology: Methodologies for the...

Climate-smart agriculture profiles: Successes, lessons and new frontiers

by Maria Eliza Villarino | May 16, 2018

Dr. Evan Girvetz, a senior scientist at CIAT, speaks during a national stakeholder workshop on climate risk profiling held in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo by:  Georgina Smith / CIAT Over the last few years, CIAT, under the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change,...

Agriculture across borders

by Madelline Romero | May 15, 2018

CATAS and CIAT set priority agenda for collaborative research in China and Southeast Asia China is a major importer of agricultural products and ASEAN’s biggest trading partner. With nearly two billion people and many rapidly urbanizing areas between them, it comes as...

CIAT’s data team proves its capacity by winning the 2018 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics

by Sylvain Delerce | May 9, 2018

Four representatives of CIAT’s team win the 2018 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics. From left to right: Nicolas Martin (INFORMS, chair of the prize), Hugo Andrés Dorado (CIAT), Andrés Aguilar (CIAT), Daniel Jiménez (CIAT), Sylvain Delerce (CIAT), and Daniel...

Golden Cassava Prize awarded to a CIAT researcher

by Sylvia Pineda | Apr 27, 2018

“Being a plant breeder is not a job, it’s a mission in life. The leading actor of this award is cassava, for it’s a fascinating crop.” – Dr. Hernán Ceballos. Dr. Hernán Ceballos, a plant breeder at CIAT’s Cassava Program, and Alfred Dixon, IITA Director of the...