New research exposes urgent need to transform key agriculture regions across Africa by as early as 2025

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Mar 7, 2016

Study quantifies the threat that climate change poses to nine staple food crops in sub-Saharan Africa and outlines actions and timeline required to adapt. Agriculture in parts of sub-Saharan Africa must undergo significant transformation if it is to continue to...

Enhancing knowledge management awareness, strategies and work plans of the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA)

by Simone Staiger | Feb 3, 2016

This blog post is co-authored by Rachel Muthoni, PABRA’s KM, monitoring and evaluation specialist The opportunity for CTA and CIAT to work together on knowledge management arose with the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) in the improvement of the network’s...

Thanks COP21… now let’s get down to business with climate-smart agriculture

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,...

Harvesting Results from the International Year of Soils

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...

Smart beans help farmers cope with global warming – CIAT on Deutsche Welle

by Stephanie Malyon | Dec 10, 2015

The eyes of the world are on Paris as leaders from 195 countries continue to hammer out a global agreement on how to address climate change, a threat that is expected to have huge impact on the ability of some communities to grow food. Take beans, for example. Beans...

Not so dirt cheap

by Georgina Smith | Dec 7, 2015

The coffee on your desk might never have arrived this morning. Deforestation rates in Ethiopia – one of the world’s top coffee exporters – are so high, records show, that forest is slashed from 40 to less than 3 percent of the country. As well as surviving...