by Sean Mattson | Apr 1, 2019
By combining the latest crop models and local expertise in Vietnam, Uganda and Nicaragua, scientists developed a process to pinpoint where cash crops and food security are most threatened by climate change. The tool can help streamline climate spending. Climate change...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Mar 27, 2019
A series of webinars on climate change and agriculture allowed a panel of scientific experts and more than 100 journalists to discuss how to cover these stories in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Southeast Asia. The series featured scientists from the...
by Sylvia Pineda | Mar 26, 2019
A new cost-benefit analysis by CIAT examines three practices for improved livestock management in Ethiopia: improved rangeland, restoration of degraded land, and fodder cropping. Preliminary findings suggest all three practices are better than business as usual and...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | Mar 12, 2019
Colombia has set ambitious targets to mitigate climate change and achieve stability. One promising approach to help achieve those simultaneously is designing and promoting sustainable land use systems that incorporate the views of all the stakeholders in the value...
by Sylvia Pineda | Mar 6, 2019
María Elker Montoya started her career as a Research Assistant at the Latin American Fund for Irrigated Rice (FLAR, for its Spanish initials) and is currently a member of the Phenotyping Platform team at CIAT. She developed a method to identify different stages of...
by Sylvia Pineda | Feb 21, 2019
Experts in tropical forages meet in Konigstein, Germany to discuss, test functions and design the new Tropical Forages Selection Tool v.2 on a revamped website page and new mobile app. The meeting gathered specialists from different backgrounds and institutions,...
“Foreign” crops – from maize to mangoes – dominate national ... 
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Five surprising ways people’s diets have changed over the past ... 
“Now CIAT has a more comprehensive view of environmental issues” ... 
Strength in diversity: How cassava intercropping benefits the crops, the ... 
Sustainable land use systems: A way to help achieve Colombia’s ...