IPCC authors meet in Colombia for final stages of Climate Change and Land report

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Feb 7, 2019

IPCC authors meet in Colombia for final stages of Climate Change and Land report by IPCC MEDIA ADVISORY | Feb 7, 2019 GENEVA, Feb 7 –Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) authors will meet in Cali, Colombia, on 11-15 February 2019 to make final preparations...

Navigating coverage of climate change and agriculture: CIAT and partners host webinars for journalists this February

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Feb 6, 2019

Agriculture is both a driver and a casualty of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that 10–12 percent of human-produced greenhouse gas emissions come from agricultural activities. These emissions, in turn, contribute to...

CIAT influences more than half a billion dollars of investment in rural development in Asia and Africa

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jan 22, 2019

Christine Chege (left) visiting a group of women processing and selling nutrient-dense products in Katsina in north Nigeria. Over the last six months, a team of researchers from International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)’s Sustainable Food Systems initiative...

“Green manure” cover crops – why they deserve a second chance

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Dec 20, 2018

Authors: Rolf Sommer and Birthe Paul What goes around comes around! Green manure cover crops – or GMCCs, as we affectionately call them – have some history. The idea to grow plants that protect the soil and improve its fertility dates back some two to three decades at...

CLEANED training take two: Kenya

by José Luis Urrea | Dec 20, 2018

Written by Jessica Mukiri The second CLEANED training occurred Nov. 21-23. Similar to the previous training in Rwanda, the participants were personnel from the livestock sectors, this time from Ethiopia and Kenya. Participants included researchers, livestock...

CLEANED training kicked off in Kigali Rwanda

by José Luis Urrea | Dec 20, 2018

Written by Jessica Mukiri A team from the Tropical Forages Program at CIAT has been working on CLEANED*, an Excel-based ex-ante tool that assesses the environmental impacts of livestock, over the past four years. The tool’s first version was published at the beginning...