by Ruben G. Echeverría | Feb 9, 2016
This article first appeared in Spanish in Colombia’s national newspaper El Tiempo, on Tuesday, 9th February, 2016. I was a teenager when I first learned about the civil war in Colombia. I heard the news on the radio in my native Uruguay. Five decades...
by Neil Palmer | Feb 8, 2016
Climate change will open up a “dry corridor” in Central America that could leave thousands of farmers struggling to produce one of the region’s most important and long-established foods – beans. The findings are published today by researchers from the...
by Neil Palmer | Jan 28, 2016
It’s all about the gaps, really. First, the absence of agriculture from international policy discussions on climate change – that was a major one. It was always transport-this, energy-that. With agriculture responsible for around quarter of greenhouse gas emissions,...
by Alejandro Marulanda | Jan 27, 2016
How much of the micronutrients remain available to nourish the human body in a serving of cassava, rice, or beans, maize or sweet potato? How much certain anti-nutrients impede body’s absorption of micronutrient from maize or sweet potato? How much of the...
by Neil Palmer | Dec 18, 2015
If you’re a regular visitor to the CIAT blog, you’ll already know that climate change is expected to take a big bite out of chocolate production. A storm is brewing for coffee too. You’ve probably also been hearing that climate-smart agriculture (CSA) can help farmers...
by Ruben G. Echeverría | Dec 17, 2015
As 2015 draws to a close, so does the International Year of Soils. Research on soils is a critical pillar of CIAT’s work, as Center staff demonstrated throughout the year, in a global campaign that put soils at the forefront of issues ranging from food security and...
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