Brazilian rice needs to toughen up for a dry future

by Ángela María Morales | Feb 21, 2018

Climate change has the potential to flip our world upside down. There’s a rising concern about how future climate change will affect crops and the livelihoods of millions of people. Confronting those future changes means assessing the problem before it happens and...

Opinion: How to make climate negotiations equitable, efficient and evidence-based | Medium

by Augusto Castro | Feb 14, 2018

A scene from the 2017 Bonn climate summit. Photo by: UNFCCC This op-ed was originally published on Medium. The start of 2018 marked the beginning of a process called the Talanoa Dialogue, which aims to check how countries are faring in meeting their Paris Agreement...

Opinion: Yes, we can still have chocolate in 2050 | Medium

by Christian Bunn | Feb 13, 2018

Cocoa beans. Photo by: Neil Palmer / CIAT Andy Jarvis, Peter Laderach and Mark Lundy were co-authors of this op-ed, which was originally posted on Medium. A Valentine’s Day without chocolate? To many people, this is unthinkable. So, it’s understandable if some might...

Let’s not blame it on the cow!

by José Luis Urrea | Feb 6, 2018

An opportunity to reduce emissions by improving livestock feeding is investigated in Nicaragua Livestock is frequently associated with negative environmental impacts such as deforestation for cattle grazing, soil degradation, loss of biodiversity, and greenhouse gas...

Cupping Fair Trade Coffee Impact

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Feb 5, 2018

by Natalia Gutiérrez & Martha Del Río| Feb 5, 2018   After 3 years of the impact evaluation project “Measuring and assessing impacts of Fair Trade for All on farmers, farmworkers, and the overall Fair Trade market system” supported by the Ford Foundation and...

CIAT and CATIE join forces to strengthen agricultural development in Central America

by Sylvia Pineda | Feb 5, 2018

Seven different themes were identified by CIAT and CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center) as possible areas of joint work in the Central American region, among which the following stand out: germplasm, cacao, coffee, sustainable livestock...