“We are adjusting to a new financial reality.”

by Sylvia Pineda | Apr 25, 2018

Gloria Rengifo has led CIAT’s Finance and Administration area for three years now, but her story within the Center begins 15 years back as an administrative assistant. I talked to her some days ago to get acquainted with her journey at CIAT, the operations in...

Inspired by the past, empowered for the future: CIAT looks forward to its next 50 years

by Ruben G. Echeverría | Apr 15, 2018

Over the course of 50 years, CIAT had distinguished itself for its contributions to development through innovative agricultural research across the tropics. Building on this track record, we move forward into the next half century committed to better understanding and...

CIAT’s data team reaches final stage of international agriculture data competition

by Maria Eliza Villarino | Apr 4, 2018

A maize plant. Photo by: Neil Palmer / CIAT If you were given datasets with genetic information and yields from trials of different experimental maize hybrids, along with information on soil conditions and recorded weather of a U.S. growing region, how will you...

3 reasons we’re publishing on Medium

by Maria Eliza Villarino | Mar 26, 2018

Since the start of 2018, CIAT has been posting opinion pieces or op-eds on Medium. As of this writing, nearly a dozen op-eds are on there. A few of you have asked me why we’ve decided to use Medium to publish op-eds from our scientists and experts. Here’s why. Reason...

How can we measure the health of soil simply and cheaply?

by José Luis Urrea | Mar 16, 2018

Authors: Ashly Arévalo, José Luis Urrea, Jacobo Arango and Juan A. Cardoso from CIAT Tropical Forages Program; Claire Horrocks and Jennifer Dungait from Rothamsted Research. Soil is more than just a  base to grow plants in: it is a living system where minerals,...

Opinion: We can do better to achieve zero deforestation and low-carbon development | Devex

by Augusto Castro | Mar 9, 2018

An aerial view of the Amazon rainforest. Photo by: Neil Palmer / CIAT This is an excerpt from an op-ed published on Devex and co-authored by Marcela Quintero, Matthias Jäger and Mark Lundy.  Recently, Unilever made an announcement that can be considered unprecedented....