On International Women’s Day, let’s think about gender equality

by Sylvia Pineda | Mar 5, 2019

On International Women’s Day, Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) partnered to think about how and why gender matters in agriculture and natural resource management (NRM), and to acknowledge those women who, through...

IPCC authors meet in Colombia for final stages of Climate Change and Land report

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Feb 7, 2019

IPCC authors meet in Colombia for final stages of Climate Change and Land report by IPCC MEDIA ADVISORY | Feb 7, 2019 GENEVA, Feb 7 –Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) authors will meet in Cali, Colombia, on 11-15 February 2019 to make final preparations...

Navigating coverage of climate change and agriculture: CIAT and partners host webinars for journalists this February

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Feb 6, 2019

Agriculture is both a driver and a casualty of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that 10–12 percent of human-produced greenhouse gas emissions come from agricultural activities. These emissions, in turn, contribute to...

Cattle urine’s planet-warming power can be curtailed with land restoration

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jan 28, 2019

Verónica Ruiz, coautora del estudio basado en Nicaragua, lleva a cabo investigación en pasturas. Crédito: UNAN When cow urine falls on degraded land, it releases far more nitrous oxide – a potent greenhouse gas – than when absorbed by healthy pasture. The findings...

CIAT influences more than half a billion dollars of investment in rural development in Asia and Africa

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jan 22, 2019

Christine Chege (left) visiting a group of women processing and selling nutrient-dense products in Katsina in north Nigeria. Over the last six months, a team of researchers from International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)’s Sustainable Food Systems initiative...

How much progress are we making in land restoration? CIAT scientists evaluate this progress by looking at 154 projects in Latin America and the Caribbean

by Sean Mattson | Dec 14, 2018

Countries have ambitious land-restoration goals, including Initiative 20x20, which aims to restore 20 million hectares in Latin America by 2020. CIAT’s Lou Verchot and colleagues are evaluating the progress in restoration across the region. What does land restoration...