Caring for the seeds of the future during the quarantine

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...

Helping Lake Tana fight the Water Hyacinth menace

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...

Transformed livelihoods empowering rural women in Rwanda

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...

With 30,000 surveys, researchers build the go-to dataset for smallholder farms

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...

Exploit local-level opportunities for sustainable land management: Lessons from a multistakeholder platform in Tanzania

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Mar 2, 2020

By Caroline Mwongera With climate change, the issues of land are becoming more important. Land conditions are vulnerable to ongoing climate change, including increased rainfall intensity, flooding, drought frequency and severity, heat stress, dry spells, wind and...

Regional research project seeks to promote the development of cacao to continue competing in the European market

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Feb 28, 2020

The final beneficiaries are small cacao producers and their families, with a focus on reducing their vulnerability to the impact of the new food safety regulation and climate change. (Photo: ©2017 CIAT/NeilPalmer) The Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC) is the...