Monitoring and Evaluation strategy for CIAT in 2016: Survey results and next steps

by Sylvia Pineda | Apr 1, 2016

A recent survey looked at  Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) practices at CIAT and gauged that 76 percent of the 56 respondents are currently involved in M&E work or have been involved in a M&E activity in the past. In particular, staff members have been...

Information Services at CIAT

by Megan Zandstra | Mar 17, 2016

At its peak, CIAT library occupied three floors and employed thirty-five people. It was open from 7am to midnight, and stayed open on the weekends. The librarians who worked there could track down research material on anything you needed, using a...

CIAT research leader receives honor from North American scientific society

by Sylvia Pineda | Feb 22, 2016

Joe Tohme, director of CIAT’s Agrobiodiversity Research Area, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. Joe was chosen “for his distinguished contributions to the field of...

El monitoreo preciso de cultivos alcanza nuevas alturas

by Sylvia Pineda | Feb 11, 2016

No es un pájaro, no es un avión, no es Superman… es un ¡dron! Esta exclamación se va poniendo de moda en el CIAT gracias a las investigaciones que actualmente incluyen el uso de estos vehículos aéreos no tripulados, equipados con cámaras e instrumentos de alta...

Peace in Colombia – an opportunity for rural development

by Ruben G. Echeverría | Feb 9, 2016

This article first appeared in Spanish in Colombia’s national newspaper El Tiempo, on Tuesday, 9th February, 2016.   I was a teenager when I first learned about the civil war in Colombia. I heard the news on the radio in my native Uruguay. Five decades...

Effective internal communication to achieve a shared vision

by José Antonio Arana | Feb 4, 2016

Internal communication remains a challenge for many organizations facing the need to inform, involve and build bridges of dialogue between the areas that compose them. Although there are many methods and current trends, it is important not to assume an internal...