by CIAT Comunicaciones | May 14, 2020
Figure 1: Agricultural officer Florence Mwachugha providing farmer-to-farmer crop management training; Smart Logistics weighing the seeds for purchase from the Ushirikiano Women SHG in Nakuru (from left to right). By Eileen Nchanji Achieving food and nutritional...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | May 6, 2020
Pig production is an important source of livelihoods for many smallholder farmers in Uganda. Authors: John Mutua, Birthe Paul, Mireille Ferrari (ILRI) and Rosemary Nzuki, Global heat stress is a growing problem that stands to impact health, livelihoods and the very...
by Adriana Varón | Apr 17, 2020
Javier Gereda, Genetic Resources Program researcher, in one of his activities for bean seed regeneration, along with his colleague Yeferson Hernández. Making sure that the collections of beans, cassava, bananas, and forages remain alive, even during the quarantine, is...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Mar 11, 2020
Lake Tana besieged by the deadly hyacinth. Authors: Lulseged Tamane and Wuletawu Abera Lake Tana is the most important freshwater lake in Ethiopia, holding up to 50% of the country’s water and serving as the main source of the Blue Nile, which provides valuable...
by Rosemary Nzuki | Mar 11, 2020
Xaverine on her wheat farm. In April 2018, heavy rains pounded the Virunga Mountains in Rwanda with torrents of water washing down to Burera Village causing flooding and destroying property as they went along. Ms. Xaverine Nyiransabimana, a widow, is one of the...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Mar 9, 2020
Farmer input is essential to tackling global challenges of climate change, rural poverty and nutrition. A new data collection tool aims to build the biggest open-access dataset of its kind for development and research Top-down projects for improving the lives of poor...
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