by Madelline Romero | Jul 11, 2018
Photo by Madelline Romero/CIAT Public-private partnership (PPP) has been touted as the sustainable way forward for development interventions. But how do you know whether the intervention is creating the positive impacts that project developers hope it would? Recently,...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | Jun 27, 2018
Artist impression of Sentinel 5p satellite. Photo by: Airbus In a not-so-distant future, rice and oil palm producers in Colombia will have access to realistic estimates of what their yields will be and the amount of greenhouse gases their fields emit in near...
by Madelline Romero | Jun 27, 2018
Almost all of the cassava plants in this field in Kratie, Cambodia, showed symptoms of cassava mosaic or cassava witches’ broom disease. Taken in February 2018. Photo by Madelline Romero/CIAT CMD threatens 55 million annual cassava production The Global Cassava...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | Jun 5, 2018
Data cleaning includes filling missing values in data sets. Photo by: geralt (via Pixabay) Data science involves creating models that can predict the future, such as what the yields will be for the next planting season. This work, arguably, is “sexy.” There’s an...
by Madelline Romero | May 28, 2018
Sinh Somphavong, a farmer for 33 years in Xieng Khouang province northeast of Laos, farms on more than one ha of land, and earns about 50 million kip (around US$6,000) each year from selling rice, vegetables, forages, and livestock. Livestock is his major income...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | May 16, 2018
Dr. Evan Girvetz, a senior scientist at CIAT, speaks during a national stakeholder workshop on climate risk profiling held in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo by: Georgina Smith / CIAT Over the last few years, CIAT, under the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change,...
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