Introducing CIAT Learning Commons!

by Megan Zandstra | Jun 7, 2017

Many university and public libraries have abandoned their old books and study rooms in favour of bright, open, communal workspaces – spaces to drink coffee, meet with colleagues, and enjoy a change of scenery. CIAT Learning Commons is a space for CIAT staff and...

Arturo Franco, the data “Magio”

by Sylvia Pineda | May 18, 2017

The creative writers of the famous TV show “The Simpsons” are ever on the alert for an interesting story about current traditions or themes and that is why they prepared a chapter featuring the parody of a secret society in Springfield called the Stonecutters (known...

How diverse is the global diet?

by Colin Khoury | May 15, 2017

New Changing Global Diet website explores changes in diets over the past 50 years in countries around the world One of the central concepts that unifies those concerned with biodiversity is the understanding that this diversity is being lost, piece by piece, to a...

Gender Connections: A role for communications, knowledge sharing, and data and information management, a brief

by Simone Staiger | May 8, 2017

By: Simone Staiger Rivas For two years, CIAT supported the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network with communications, knowledge sharing and information management. The CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network was created in 2012 to ensure that the...

Student perspectives from the field: Talking about the weather in Chiapas, Mexico

by CIAT Comunicaciones | May 5, 2017

By Lara Lookabaugh | May 05, 2017 I met Lucy through Mari, an organizer of Mujeres y Maíz Criollo. Lucy lives in Amatenango, a community of Tseltal farmers outside of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. When I arrived in Amatenango, Lucy wasn’t home...

The new Bristol for farmers

by Diana Carolina Giraldo | Mar 27, 2017

The new Bristol for farmers “A real picture of customs, when a scream breaks the dialogue of the lady, the Bristol, take the 2009 Bristol, a thousand no more! offers the edition of the picturesque almanac – an orange booklet only 30 pages long in which forecasts,...