Our land is wise: it will treat us the way we treat it

by Nadia Staiger | Jun 27, 2017

18th WOCAT Networking Meeting ‒ Promoting Sustainable Land Management and Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals Seventy percent of the world’s available water resources are being used in agriculture, while 43% of degradation worldwide is caused by...

Boosting African agribusiness with a new generation of cooperatives

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Jun 23, 2017

For the International Day of Cooperatives to be celebrated on 1 July, the Linking Farmers to Markets team of CIAT and the Enhancing Development through Cooperatives (EDC) initiative of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) just published a...

WOCAT – success stories that the world can learn from

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 18, 2017

Food security depends on productive crop and pasture land. Yet these are increasingly threatened by challenges including climate change, land degradation and competition over limited resources. Currently over half of the land used for agriculture worldwide is...

The Great CIAT 50 Reunion, a celebration of the past to strengthen the future

by José Antonio Arana | Jun 15, 2017

“All of you here have built CIAT’S future.” This was the message that Joe Tohme, director of CIAT’s agrobiodiversity area, gave to the 500 former employees who came to the Center on June 9 to celebrate the Great Reunion, as part of the celebration of CIAT’s fiftieth...

New collaboration with AAIN to grow agri-business in Africa

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 15, 2017

This week, African Agribusiness Incubation Network (AAIN) Chief Executive Officer Dr. Alex Ariho, and Human and Institutional, Capacity Development Officer Dr. James Aucha, visited CIAT in Nairobi to sign a Memorandum of Understanding and discuss collaboration between...

Living soils and some surprising results

by Job Kihara | Jun 14, 2017

By Job Kihara, Peter Bolo, Michael Kinyua, John Mukalama, Rolf Sommer, and Andrew Margenot.   “Where farmyard manure has been added, there is living soil. But the soil is dead where there is only mineral fertilizer application”. This statement by Erest Omulama, a...