by Glenn Hyman | Jun 21, 2019
The 2019 Global Forest Watch (GFW) Summit, held in Washington DC this week, opened with a retrospective on how deforestation monitoring systems have matured since their broad development in the early 2010s. Several Latin America countries have their own dedicated...
by Miguel Antonio Romero | Jun 17, 2019
In its final stage, the Sustainable Amazonian Landscapes project developed a platform called Voices, where farmers and decision-makers talk about their experience with the project. The Sustainable Amazonian Landscapes project (SAL) has focused efforts on disseminating...
by Sean Mattson | Jun 13, 2019
Vanishing animals command headlines but declining plant diversity also imperils humans. Researchers and educators explain how curing “plant blindness” is essential to saving biodiversity and ourselves. Food plants are a great place to dig in. From our perches in the...
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 Sylvia Pineda | Jun 5, 2019
CHAMPIONS OF CIAT Jacobo Arango, Lead Author of the Sixth IPCC Assessment Report By Sylvia Pineda | Jun 5, 2019 Photo: José Luis Urrea / CIAT Jacobo Arango, environmental biologist from the Tropical Forages Program at CIAT, is one of the lead authors from the...
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