by Neil Palmer | Feb 10, 2016
Representatives of the European Union (EU) visited CIAT headquarters yesterday, getting a glimpse of how Colombia can transition to a post-conflict era through productive, profitable and sustainable agriculture. The prospect of an imminent end to the country’s...
by Ruben G. Echeverría | Feb 9, 2016
This article first appeared in Spanish in Colombia’s national newspaper El Tiempo, on Tuesday, 9th February, 2016. I was a teenager when I first learned about the civil war in Colombia. I heard the news on the radio in my native Uruguay. Five decades...
by Neil Palmer | Feb 8, 2016
Climate change will open up a “dry corridor” in Central America that could leave thousands of farmers struggling to produce one of the region’s most important and long-established foods – beans. The findings are published today by researchers from the...
by Simone Staiger | Feb 3, 2016
This blog post is co-authored by Rachel Muthoni, PABRA’s KM, monitoring and evaluation specialist The opportunity for CTA and CIAT to work together on knowledge management arose with the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) in the improvement of the network’s...
by Neil Palmer | Jan 28, 2016
It’s all about the gaps, really. First, the absence of agriculture from international policy discussions on climate change – that was a major one. It was always transport-this, energy-that. With agriculture responsible for around quarter of greenhouse gas emissions,...
by Georgina Smith | Jan 19, 2016
Two scientists with a long history of collaboration with CIAT have been honored for contributions towards the world’s most widely grown cassava variety – now grown by 60 to 75 percent of all cassava farmers in Thailand and Vietnam – and a key food security crop and...
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