Artificial intelligence and farmer knowledge boost smallholder maize yields

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Oct 16, 2019

Data-driven agriculture can boost smallholder production threatened by variable weather and climate change, but scientists need to work with farmers and governments. A decade of data collection and collaboration in Colombia shows what success looks like  Farmers in...

Sara Rankin, the researcher from Cali who promotes urban agriculture as more than just producing food

by Sylvia Pineda | Oct 16, 2019

CHAMPIONS OF CIAT Sara Rankin, the researcher from Cali who promotes urban agriculture as more than just producing food por Sylvia Pineda | Oct 16, 2019 Sara Rankin was born in Cali and she is a researcher from the Sustainable Food Systems team at CIAT. This Champion...

Social Progress Index applied in the Sustainable Territories Program

by Vivian Zeidemann y Beatriz Rodriguez | Oct 4, 2019

The Social Progress Index (SPI) is a comprehensive measure of the well-being of a society, which aims to support decision-makers in identifying development priorities to generate plans and projects in pockets of high social and environmental vulnerability. The index...

What happens in the city when we understand that the rural-urban link is increasingly strong? Cali’s example

by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Oct 4, 2019

Photo credit: G.Smith/CIAT Not a new: agriculture is not an exclusive business from rural areas. For that reason, several years ago, CIAT began to respond to the need of building an inclusive and resilient food system in one of the most important cities in Colombia:...

Marcela Quintero: Success at Work is a Matter of Balance

by Sylvia Pineda | Oct 3, 2019

CHAMPIONS OF CIAT Marcela Quintero: Success at Work is a Matter of Balance “To be successful, we must balance all the pieces of our lives and learn to give each one of them the importance they deserve.” por Sylvia Pineda | Oct 3, 2019 Marcela Quintero is one of the...

Restoring land in Latin America shows big potential for climate mitigation

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Sep 23, 2019

First inventory of restoration projects across Latin America and the Caribbean shows where the potential lies for climate mitigation and provides a compass towards reaching the Bonn Challenge ambitions through forest restoration Land restoration in Latin America and...