COVID-19 highlights the need for food systems-based policies for reducing tropical deforestation

by Augusto Castro | Jun 5, 2020

Photo credit: Terra-i   Deforestation has many drivers but one is often overlooked: food consumption in cities that increases demand for products produced on deforested land. To be successful, tropical countries’ zero-deforestation policies need to address...

International analytics award goes to CGIAR centers for sustainable agriculture tools

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 2, 2020

By CIMMYT The 2020 IAAA award recognizes groundbreaking data systems and tools helping more than 150,000 farmers in Mexico. While technology and data analysis have revolutionized farming in high-income countries, farmers in low-income nations have often been left out....

Distributing high-iron and zinc bean varieties to women farmers during COVID-19

by CIAT Comunicaciones | May 14, 2020

Figure 1: Agricultural officer Florence Mwachugha providing farmer-to-farmer crop management training; Smart Logistics weighing the seeds for purchase from the Ushirikiano Women SHG in Nakuru (from left to right). By Eileen Nchanji Achieving food and nutritional...

Update: Food systems for healthier diets A4NH contributions to the nutrition sensitive movement in Vietnam continue

by Tuyen Huynh | May 8, 2020

Agriculture for Nutrition and Health Research Program (A4NH) researchers from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT have been part of the Technical Working Group on Nutrition led by UNICEF and the National Institute of Nutrition in Vietnam since 2017. This...

Taming heat stress – climate change adaptation of pig and dairy sector in Uganda

by CIAT Comunicaciones | May 6, 2020

Pig production is an important source of livelihoods for many smallholder farmers in Uganda. Authors: John Mutua, Birthe Paul, Mireille Ferrari (ILRI) and Rosemary Nzuki, Global heat stress is a growing problem that stands to impact health, livelihoods and the very...

Caring for the seeds of the future during the quarantine

by Adriana Varón | Apr 17, 2020

Javier Gereda, Genetic Resources Program researcher, in one of his activities for bean seed regeneration, along with his colleague Yeferson Hernández. Making sure that the collections of beans, cassava, bananas, and forages remain alive, even during the quarantine, is...