New vulnerability assessment shows how climate change could redraw the agricultural map of Central America

by Neil Palmer | Sep 28, 2016

New vulnerability assessment shows how climate change could redraw the agricultural map of Central America Climate change could transform the agricultural landscape in Central America, with key crops like beans and export-quality coffee losing suitability, and...

Big data and Africa’s Green Revolution

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Sep 27, 2016

Big data will be key to Africa’s Green Revolution This article first appeared on AllAfrica. By Dr Debisi Araba “Take it to the farmer”. Those were the last words of Dr. Norman Borlaug, as remembered by his granddaughter Julie Borlaug in her opening speech at the...

Livestock: climate menace or opportunity for change?

by Georgina Smith | Sep 20, 2016

This will be among topics presented by a team of CIAT’s researchers at the Tropentag 2016 conference in Vienna, Austria, themed: “Solidarity in a competing world – fair use of resources,” from September 18 – 21. Cattle production – which has a considerable...

Agricultural research, an ally for Colombia at peace

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Aug 24, 2016

Claudia Navas, an advisor to Colombia´s High Commission for Post-Conflict Recovery, visited CIAT headquarters on 17-18 August with a clear objective: to gain a deeper knowledge of the Center´s experience in applied research and “identify effective interventions for...

Trees on agricultural land sink four times more carbon

by Georgina Smith | Aug 10, 2016

Trees grown on agricultural land significantly contribute to global carbon budgets, say authors in this recent study. If carbon from trees grown on agricultural land was well accounted for, total carbon estimates for agricultural land would be more than four times...

Bean power: Finger on the pulse of a drought-resilient future

by Georgina Smith | Aug 8, 2016

Against a hilly backdrop, Daud Bukuku and his wife Neema Obeti examine a handful of red specked beans from a large basket. The open fields behind them have just been harvested. But they’re lucky to have had a harvest at all – the beans they proudly shows us...