by Sylvia Pineda | Sep 25, 2017
CIAT has been celebrating its 50 years all year long in 2017 through various activities that have brought together partners, donors, retired Center staff, and current work teams. Along with the office in Managua (Nicaragua) next week (click here to see the agenda),...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | Sep 19, 2017
From left to right: Silvia Restrepo of Universidad de los Andes, Jan Leach of Colorado State University, Patricia del Portillo of CorpoGen, and Sally Mackenzie of Pennsylvania State University speak during a panel discussion on women in science at CIAT headquarters in...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Sep 18, 2017
The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture is hosting its first annual congress, taking place in Cali, Colombia, 19 to 22 September 2017. The Big Data in Agriculture Convention of 2017: An Alliance for a Data Revolution will be hosted with the aim to align the...
by Sylvia Pineda | Sep 14, 2017
With new, clean technologies that use solar energy and thus reduce the carbon footprint, CIAT, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, is inaugurating solar panels this coming November. The project is promoted by Celsia, through EPSA, with the battery-free...
by Sylvia Pineda | Sep 12, 2017
The second annual meeting of the cassava program was held at CIAT last Wednesday, 30 August. For the first time, the entire Cassava team from Asia and CIATHQ met here to learn how the research projects are advancing. During the retreat, the leader of the cassava...
by Sylvia Pineda | Aug 24, 2017
By: Perla Castillo & Janelee Waldock The CGIAR and CIAT have gone through transformational changes in the past decade, and recently we are driven by an aspiration to become a learning organisation. Future success depends on our ability to track and demonstrate...