by Rosemary Nzuki | Jan 13, 2020
CIAT CHAMPIONS CIAT Champion of Open Science: Leroy Mwanzia By Rosemary Nzuki | Dic 20, 2020 “Working to help the Ministry of Education in the Kenya Educational Sector Support Program made me realize the power of data for decision making.” Throughout his university...
by José Antonio Arana | Oct 22, 2018
Elizabeth Campillo, CIAT information and documentation analyst, recently presented a bibliometric study of CIAT publications from 2012 to 2017. Between this period, a total of 928 articles were published in peer-reviewed journals, representing an average of 155...
by Andy Jarvis | Oct 26, 2017
I was working on toilets at the time. Suddenly, I found myself part of one of the biggest scientific movements in the history of CGIAR. It was 2005. As a geospatial analyst, I had a short contract to map the best places to install latrines in rural Nicaragua. While I...
by Leroy Mwanzia | Oct 26, 2017
Leroy Mwanzia, Data and Information Manager at CIAT. Photo by: Neil Palmer / CIAT Open data can mean different things to different people. For me and my team, it’s not about giving away data, it’s about giving it back. Over the last 50 years, CIAT scientists...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | Oct 25, 2017
Symptoms of the disease include short internodes on the stem. Photo by: Georgina Smith / CIAT In Phnom Penh, Cambodia, CIAT lead virologist Wilmer Cuellar stood before Food and Agriculture Organization representatives to confirm the presence and likely spread of...
by Fridah Nyakundi | Oct 23, 2017
Can you imagine if we could accurately predict a looming malnutrition crisis, in the same way, we forecast impending food security problems such as extreme hunger and famine? CIAT is using big data and machine learning to develop a Nutrition Early Warning System...