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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Jun 26, 2018
Guy Henry: a torch bearer By Erika Eliana Mosquera | Jun 26, 2018 This man has the will of a flint. For those who do not know what a flint is, it is a variety of quartz, compact, and translucent along the edges, that produces sparks when struck by another flint. And...
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