The Great CIAT 50 Reunion, a celebration of the past to strengthen the future

by José Antonio Arana | Jun 15, 2017

“All of you here have built CIAT’S future.” This was the message that Joe Tohme, director of CIAT’s agrobiodiversity area, gave to the 500 former employees who came to the Center on June 9 to celebrate the Great Reunion, as part of the celebration of CIAT’s fiftieth...

New collaboration with AAIN to grow agri-business in Africa

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 15, 2017

This week, African Agribusiness Incubation Network (AAIN) Chief Executive Officer Dr. Alex Ariho, and Human and Institutional, Capacity Development Officer Dr. James Aucha, visited CIAT in Nairobi to sign a Memorandum of Understanding and discuss collaboration between...

Living soils and some surprising results

by Job Kihara | Jun 14, 2017

By Job Kihara, Peter Bolo, Michael Kinyua, John Mukalama, Rolf Sommer, and Andrew Margenot.   “Where farmyard manure has been added, there is living soil. But the soil is dead where there is only mineral fertilizer application”. This statement by Erest Omulama, a...

EATxCali Forum – A Latin American perspective on food, health and the environment

by Claudia Calderón | Jun 5, 2017

By Guy Henry | Jun 05, 2017 Over 80% of the Latin American population now lives in urban areas. Many of them are poor and have limited access to healthy food at affordable prices. As a result, they suffer disproportionately from a double burden: hunger and...

What role can cacao for peace play in Colombia?

by Natalia Gutiérrez | May 30, 2017

In the midst of the ten blocks that comprise Remolinos del Caguán, in the Caguán River that borders it and in the Amazon jungle that shelters it, the legacy of father Jacinto Franzoi remains intact: no to coca, yes to cacao. In this remote town of Cartagena del...

Good NEWS for the Fight Against Malnutrition

by Georgina Smith | May 29, 2017

Good NEWS for the Fight Against Malnutrition Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Power a Nutrition Early Warning System (NEWS) for Africa Since at least the 1970s, food crises have seemed to strike sub-Saharan Africa with depressing frequency They often require...