by Sean Mattson | Jun 13, 2019
Building on the success of the Climate-Smart Agriculture Country Profiles, CIAT, together with the World Bank and FAO, is leading an initiative to create profiles for digital agriculture, starting with Argentina, Grenada, Kenya, Turkey and Vietnam. Digital...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 11, 2019
Authored by: Stanley Karanja Ng’ang’a, Ph.D, and Dorcas Onyango Jalang’o, M.Sc. A new study on socioeconomic factors that constrain or facilitate the adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices in Western Kenya by CIAT examines the role of soil carbon on household...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 4, 2019
The focus on the negative impacts of livestock overshadows its multiple positive contributions to livelihoods of smallholders in Africa in terms of nutrition, draft power, manure for soil fertilization, asset and risk management. For example in Ethiopia, people...
by Sylvia Pineda | May 31, 2019
To expand its support for young agricultural entrepreneurs, or “agripreneurs,” and to help cultivate the next crop of farmers in Africa, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) signed a hosting and collaboration agreement with the Climate Smart...
by Christian Bunn | May 24, 2019
Women do most of the labor on coffee farms in Uganda (Picture ©HRNS Alliance for Resilient Coffee Uganda) Cross-posted from: Medium At the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) we believe that adaptation to climate change should not be driven by a long...
by Rosemary Nzuki | May 23, 2019
CHAMPIONS OF CIAT Climate Smart Agriculture for Transformed Livelihoods por Sylvia Pineda | May 23, 2019 Caroline Mwongera: “You cannot take science into the field without first understanding local farming contexts” Caroline Mwongera grew up in a vibrant farm in the...
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