Setting the record straight on oil palm and peat in SE Asia

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Oct 5, 2016

Setting the record straight on oil palm and peat in SE Asia A group of 139 scientists have published a letter in response to recent newspaper reports carrying comments made by a Malaysian government minister about the country’s peatlands. The Minister of...

Testing Fair Trade for All in Brazil

by Martha Del Río | Sep 28, 2016

By Martha del Rio, Stefania Sellitti, Natalia Gutiérrez Fairtrade, FT, is a social movement that aims to connect disadvantaged producers and consumers, promote fairer trading conditions and empower producers to combat poverty, strengthen their position, and take more...

New vulnerability assessment shows how climate change could redraw the agricultural map of Central America

by Neil Palmer | Sep 28, 2016

New vulnerability assessment shows how climate change could redraw the agricultural map of Central America Climate change could transform the agricultural landscape in Central America, with key crops like beans and export-quality coffee losing suitability, and...

Big data and Africa’s Green Revolution

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Sep 27, 2016

Big data will be key to Africa’s Green Revolution This article first appeared on AllAfrica. By Dr Debisi Araba “Take it to the farmer”. Those were the last words of Dr. Norman Borlaug, as remembered by his granddaughter Julie Borlaug in her opening speech at the...

Livestock: climate menace or opportunity for change?

by Georgina Smith | Sep 20, 2016

This will be among topics presented by a team of CIAT’s researchers at the Tropentag 2016 conference in Vienna, Austria, themed: “Solidarity in a competing world – fair use of resources,” from September 18 – 21. Cattle production – which has a considerable...

CIAT and partners focus on soil and land restoration in Paraguay

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Sep 14, 2016

There is a first time for everything, as the saying goes. And for CIAT´s Soils Research Area, the project “Confronting the challenges of smallholder farming communities: Restoration of degraded agroecosystems,” provided the entry point for a new effort in Paraguay to...