There is still time to apply for the US$2 million Food System Vision Prize!

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jan 23, 2020

If your goal for the new year is to make a difference in your community, country, or beyond, the Food System Vision Prize could be the chance to make your dream a reality. The US$2 million prize, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, is accepting applications until...

CIAT Champion of Open Science: Leroy Mwanzia

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...

Grass height in cow nutrition: size does matter

by José Luis Urrea | Dec 21, 2019

Unlike humans, cows have the ability to convert grass into foods of high nutritional value such as meat and milk. This is because one of their stomachs, rumen, is responsible for the fermentation process that converts pasture into milk precursors. However, other...

Monitoring and Evaluation of the Partnership Platform for the Amazon through Social Network Analysis

by Beatriz Rodriguez | Nov 27, 2019

Monitoring and periodic analysis of the network of past, present, and future relationships within and outside the Partnership Platform for the Amazon (PPA) are an important component of the overall PPA learning agenda. To implement the Social Network Analysis (SNA)...

For sustainable cacao farming in Colombia, going organic is not necessarily the only good answer

by Maria Eliza Villarino | Nov 27, 2019

Members of the SLUS Project team – Dr. Augusto Castro-Núñez (second from the left), Jhon Jairo Hurtado (third from the right), Miguel Romero Sánchez (second from the right), and Grey Yohana Lozano (rightmost) –  spoke with cacao farmers and a technical advisor from...

Brainstorming biodiversity monitoring

by Beatriz Rodriguez | Nov 26, 2019

Consultation workshop to develop a biodiversity monitoring tool. Photos: Juliana Nogueira (Quartzo). Recently, CIAT led a consultation workshop to start developing a biodiversity monitoring tool that can assess the impact of private-sector investment initiatives on...