by CIAT Comunicaciones | Aug 23, 2016
A group of researchers recently visited the town of Yosano in Japan to find out first-hand from Japanese rice growers about a new approach to rice agronomy that makes irrigated production more environmentally friendly, requiring less water and fewer applications of...
by Shadi Azadegan | Aug 12, 2016
To share experiences that will increase the productivity of Nicaragua’s livestock sector and improve the quality and efficiency of the country’s cattle production, the Nicaraguan Institute for Agricultural Technology (INTA) organized the “First International Congress...
by Natalia Gutiérrez | Aug 12, 2016
No news is good news they say. According to the online Cambridge dictionary it is used “to make someone feel less worried when they have not received information about someone or something, because if something bad had happened, they would have been told about it”: We...
by Ravic Nijbroek | Aug 10, 2016
This blog, co-authored by Saurabh Arora, was first published on the STEPS Centre website. Sustainable Intensification (SI) promises more food from the same amount of land, while minimizing pressure on the environment. In Sub-Saharan Africa, considerable research and...
by Georgina Smith | Aug 10, 2016
Trees grown on agricultural land significantly contribute to global carbon budgets, say authors in this recent study. If carbon from trees grown on agricultural land was well accounted for, total carbon estimates for agricultural land would be more than four times...
by Natalia Gutiérrez | Aug 9, 2016
CIAT’s Linking Farmers to Markets research team, with support from CGIAR’s Policies, Institutions and Markets Research Program (PIM), has given different uses to the LINK methodology over the past couple of years with the goal of constructing more inclusive and...
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