What do you mean the hamburger isn’t all that American?

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Aug 6, 2019

Scientists and graphic designers are joining forces to strengthen the communication power of research through attractive, informative, and even surprising visuals. Say you’re a scientist who studies the origins and history of food, and you want to communicate to the...

Partnering with the seed industry to redefine the Latin American forages market

by José Luis Urrea | Aug 1, 2019

Photo: Farmers at a community plot testing different forages in Tanzania. Credit: Georgina Smith / CIAT Cross-posted from The CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform Meat and dairy products are central to the Latin American diet, and livestock is a source of income for...

Convention on Biological Diversity adopts indicator to track conservation of useful plants

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Aug 1, 2019

Developed by CIAT and the Crop Trust, the indicator provides an official marker for thousands of economically and culturally important plants. It shows conservation goals set for 2020 will be hard to attain. The Biodiversity Indicators Partnership officially adopted...

Linking local and global food systems for more healthy and sustainable communities

by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Jul 30, 2019

Written by: Anna Whitton, Sandra Aronson & Lisa Gerbal  More and more we are hearing that the food system is ‘broken’ – many people aren’t getting enough to eat amidst plenty, more are eating too much when they ‘know’ they shouldn’t, and most aren’t eating the...

Could these crops save Peruvian forests?

by Maria Eliza Villarino | Jul 29, 2019

Cacao and oil palm (CIAT/Neil Palmer) There’s an emerging narrative on why deforestation happens in Latin America. And it’s not quite the story that various studies, international policies and news outlets tell. As noted in a previous blog, a study conducted by CIAT...

Atlas of Climate Change Impact on cocoa production in Central America and the Caribbean

by Fabio Castro | Jul 25, 2019

Cocoa is an important crop in the economy of thousands of families in Central America and the Caribbean and, in the past decade, its production has gradually increased in the region. The crop has not escaped the impacts of climate change, which result in higher...