Opinion: Without open data, there’s no big data for smallholder agriculture | Medium

by Leroy Mwanzia | Mar 1, 2018

A cow on grazing land in Huila, in the Colombian Andes. Photo by: Neil Palmer / CIAT The op-ed was originally posted on Medium. Afew weeks ago, I spoke at a big data and open data event in Ethiopia. On the first day, William Wu, CEO of QED, gave an inspiring talk...

Opinion: Everyone’s looking for a data unicorn. There’s no such thing. | Medium

by Daniel Jimenez | Feb 28, 2018

This op-ed was originally posted on Medium. At a recent gathering in Houston, I spoke with a guy who told me his company is looking for a data unicorn. The term encapsulates what an ideal data scientist is: a coder, a statistician, a communicator, a fundraiser, a...

Farmers in Quang Binh province learn everything there is to know about sweetpotato

by Madelline Romero | Feb 27, 2018

Farmers in Cao Quang and Quang Thach communes in Vietnam’s Quang Binh province participated in a 3-part training activity on sweetpotato, held over a total of seven days in September, November, and December 2017. Facilitated by a group consisting of a senior...

Daniel Debouck receives Crop Trust award for crop diversity ‘gatekeepers’

by Maria Eliza Villarino | Feb 26, 2018

Daniel Debouck, of CIAT’s Genetic Resources Unit, receives the inaugural Crop Trust Legacy Award. Photo by: Neil Palmer / Crop Trust   The Crop Trust has named Daniel Debouck, who for many years led the CIAT Genetic Resources Program, as one of the...

CIAT joins the seed party at the North Pole

by Adriana Varón | Feb 23, 2018

It looks like any other day. The 18 workers of this CIAT laboratory are wearing their white coats and are very concentrated on their work: some count seeds, others, assisted by a giant magnifying glass, remove the seeds that are punctured or broken, and others pack...

From observation to action: How Terra-i’s near-real time monitoring of forest cover loss will support conservation efforts in Southeast Asia

by Madelline Romero | Feb 22, 2018

Image from Google To observe forest cover changes, Cambodia’s Forestry Administration has used satellite images at a scale of 1:250,000 (1 cm on the map equals 2.5 kms on the ground), and updating of data on forest cover resources has been done every four years. But...