Threat of cassava mosaic disease, strengthening resilience to climate disasters, dominate conversations between CIAT and Vietnam agricultural institutions

by Madelline Romero | Jul 13, 2018

CIAT Director General Ruben Echeverria and Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development-International Cooperation Director General Tran Kim Long, at the signing of an expanded cooperation agreement in Hanoi this week. Photo by Madelline Romero/CIAT...

A move to improve pasture management and cut down greenhouse gases from cattle

by José Luis Urrea | Jul 12, 2018

Cows are getting more popular – and not for good reasons, but rather for looking like the new villains. Land-use change and feed production, among others, are the main sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cattle production, making livestock one of the top...

Can direct benefits from PPP schemes trickle down beyond private business to the rest of society?

by Madelline Romero | Jul 11, 2018

Photo by Madelline Romero/CIAT Public-private partnership (PPP) has been touted as the sustainable way forward for development interventions. But how do you know whether the intervention is creating the positive impacts that project developers hope it would? Recently,...

Hoan and sweetpotato: a sweet, budding love affair

by Madelline Romero | Jun 29, 2018

How sweetpotato provides better incomes for farmers in Quang Binh Written by Hang Thi Le A single parent to two children, Nguyen Thi Hoan from Village 6 in Quang Thach commune, Quang Trach district, Quang Binh province is a hardworking, open-minded farmer. Having...

CIAT turns to space technology for monitoring crop performance

by Maria Eliza Villarino | Jun 27, 2018

Artist impression of Sentinel 5p satellite. Photo by: Airbus In a not-so-distant future, rice and oil palm producers in Colombia will have access to realistic estimates of what their yields will be and the amount of greenhouse gases their fields emit in near...

GCP21 calls for regional approach to stem the outbreak of cassava mosaic disease in Southeast Asia

by Madelline Romero | Jun 27, 2018

Almost all of the cassava plants in this field in Kratie, Cambodia, showed symptoms of cassava mosaic or cassava witches’ broom disease. Taken in February 2018. Photo by Madelline Romero/CIAT CMD threatens 55 million annual cassava production The Global Cassava...