The RTBfoods project inception meeting will be held in Buea, Cameroon, from 23 to 28 January 2018.

by Georgina Smith | Jan 23, 2018

The RTBfoods project, which has an initial budget of 11.5 million euros over five years, will be implemented with five partner countries: Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Uganda. It will analyze three common uses of each target crops (cassava, yam, sweet...

CIAT research surprises Japanese delegation led by Minister

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jan 22, 2018

Two hours were enough for Japan’s State Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, Mr. Sakai Manabu, to ratify once again that the use of technologies and information is key to improve agricultural production systems. Walking through CIAT’s rice experimental...

CIAT scientists innovate using GPR technology

by Sylvia Pineda | Jan 18, 2018

CIAT’s Phenomics Platform scientists can now study crop roots directly in the field using non-invasive technologies, that is, without a direct contact with the roots to avoid damage. The use of this technology known as “ground-penetrating radar (GPR)” offers...

CIAT Library, an evolution that goes far beyond paper

by José Antonio Arana | Nov 29, 2017

The evolution of technology has influenced several aspects of organizational life, placing information as the essential element to generate knowledge. Theorists and academicians talk of the current “information society”. This situation has taken us to an...

The Eyes of a Drone, an agronomic revolution at CIAT

by Sylvia Pineda | Nov 29, 2017

Last October, the CIAT Phenomics Platform Team from the Agrobiodiversity Area conducted the “Drones for Agriculture” course, with the purpose of training staff from different programs at the Center, who were interested in getting acquainted with the remote...

Opinion: How climate finance links forest conservation, peacebuilding, and sustainable food | Devex

by Augusto Castro | Nov 21, 2017

Augusto Castro-Nuñez, a researcher on sustainable food systems at CIAT. Photo by: Neil Palmer/CIAT   The below is an excerpt of Augusto Castro’s op-ed published on Devex: The scene remains vivid in my head. People packed the hall outside the plenary where...