Big Data Roadshow hits East Africa

by Georgina Smith | May 26, 2016

“This is where the rubber hits the road,” said the World Bank’s Erick Fernandes, opening the first Big Data for Agriculture  Roadshow in East Africa  in Nairobi, on Wednesday May 24th. Speaking to participants from government, the private sector and research...

Farmers become editors: what next?

by Juliet Braslow | May 23, 2016

We’ve found that participatory videos are a powerful way to include marginalized voices in development discourse. But we know what you’re thinking. What happens next? When we started out, our aim was to include farmers’ voices in land and soil management-related...

Co-operative leadership in Uganda

by Georgina Smith | May 17, 2016

The CIAT Uganda team just concluded a “Cooperative Leadership Event” in Kampala-Kawanda, Uganda. The event, which took place between the 3rd and 6th of May, was the largest gathering of agricultural cooperatives and farmer organizations in Uganda. In...

Context, conflict and climate change

by Georgina Smith | May 17, 2016

By Wendy Okolo, and Kelvin Shikuku The area of Nwoya district, Northern Uganda, was wracked by civil war for two decades. Today, the area is highly vulnerable to climate change, as farmers rely on low-productivity subsistence crops such as sesame, sorghum or beans....

Could “magic beans” help ease Malawi’s maize woes?

by Neil Palmer | May 12, 2016

Whichever way you drive into or out of Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, maize is everywhere. It flanks the roadsides for miles and miles; huge, undulating expanses disappear into the distance. You’d be forgiven for thinking the country was preparing for a bumper...

CIAT Annual Report 2015-2016 is out!

by Stefanie Neno | Apr 28, 2016

We build the fundamentals of sustainable food futures The world has never produced or consumed so much food. We cannot, however, ignore the pressure that food production is putting on the environment and the ecosystem services we all depend on. We cannot ignore either...