by Maria Eliza Villarino | Nov 3, 2017
A female farmer in the community of Beora in Nepal’s Rupandehi District. Photo by: Neil Palmer / CIAT Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) profiles for some of Asia’s most climate change-vulnerable countries are now out. CSA involves agricultural practices that can help...
by Madelline Romero | Nov 3, 2017
Like many of his neighbors, Nguyen Duc Du relied on government food aid when typhoons – which regularly visited Tan Tien village in Quang Binh province – destroyed their rice crops. Except one time, nearly a decade ago, when the valley got flooded and no relief teams...
by Leroy Mwanzia | Oct 26, 2017
Leroy Mwanzia, Data and Information Manager at CIAT. Photo by: Neil Palmer / CIAT Open data can mean different things to different people. For me and my team, it’s not about giving away data, it’s about giving it back. Over the last 50 years, CIAT scientists...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | Oct 25, 2017
Symptoms of the disease include short internodes on the stem. Photo by: Georgina Smith / CIAT In Phnom Penh, Cambodia, CIAT lead virologist Wilmer Cuellar stood before Food and Agriculture Organization representatives to confirm the presence and likely spread of...
by Sylvia Pineda | Oct 23, 2017
Sylvia Pineda, a member of the internal communications team at CIAT, visited the Central American regional office in Managua, Nicaragua, on October 16-20. During her visit, topics related to the work carried out by the internal communications team, its achievements,...
by Madelline Romero | Oct 20, 2017
Photo by Madelline Romero/CIAT Cassava currently covers 25 million hectares worldwide, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization – more than all the land in the entire United Kingdom. At this huge scale, the impacts of agriculture on the...
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