National Stakeholder Workshopin Kenia: Country Climate Change Risk Profiles

by Sylvia Pineda | May 20, 2016

CIAT organized National Stakeholder Workshop on Country Climate Change Risk Profiles, Kenya. This is part of CIATs support to the Ministry of Agriculture. The meeting was attended by 60 representatives from Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Kenya...

Iron beans from the garden to the plate

by Sylvia Pineda | May 18, 2016

By: Laetitia Umulisa Farmers from Burera District and United States Agency for International Development (USAID), teams from Rwanda and United States of America have enjoyed iron beans field tour and meals on 13th of May 2016 in Cyanika Sector of Burera District in...

Co-operative leadership in Uganda

by Georgina Smith | May 17, 2016

The CIAT Uganda team just concluded a “Cooperative Leadership Event” in Kampala-Kawanda, Uganda. The event, which took place between the 3rd and 6th of May, was the largest gathering of agricultural cooperatives and farmer organizations in Uganda. In...

CIAT staff expresses their points of view about open data

by José Antonio Arana | May 6, 2016

Last November, CIAT’s Data, Information and Knowledge Management group conducted a survey to assess Center staff’s knowledge and understanding of open data access and reuse of CIAT’s data in future research. The survey was answered by 124 CIAT staff...

The road to publishing scientific papers: a successful case for the DAPA team at CIAT

by Sylvia Pineda | Apr 19, 2016

Everything within the universe has a special order and in life everything has a method. Projects have to go through stages that cannot be postponed, as in the case of publishing, and this is even more so when they are of a scientific nature. These types of...

GCARD3: Will we be left behind?

by Georgina Smith | Apr 11, 2016

At this year’s Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD3), Mark Holderness, Executive Secretary of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research, closed the 5th – 8th April meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, themed: “No one left...