Celebrating women in science

by Sylvia Pineda | Feb 12, 2019

Celebrating women in science ; Cross-posted from Bioversity International Join us in celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! On this occasion Bioversity International and CIAT feature some of our very own women scientists working to promote...

Inter-institutional team tackles Honduras’s water crisis

by Sylvia Pineda | Feb 12, 2019

More than 300 actors, including technicians and decision makers from six departments in western Honduras (Copán, Intibucá, Lempira, La Paz, Ocotepeque, and Santa Bárbara), have benefited from the Honduras Water platform [Agua de Honduras], co-developed by CIAT’s...

Cattle urine’s planet-warming power can be curtailed with land restoration

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jan 28, 2019

Verónica Ruiz, coautora del estudio basado en Nicaragua, lleva a cabo investigación en pasturas. Crédito: UNAN When cow urine falls on degraded land, it releases far more nitrous oxide – a potent greenhouse gas – than when absorbed by healthy pasture. The findings...

Using genome diversity for the environment, livelihoods and tropical grasslands

by José Luis Urrea | Jan 18, 2019

By Pat Heslop-Harrison, University of Leicester (with collaborators listed below) Tropical grassland grazing by cattle provides food for millions of people, and livelihoods for huge numbers of farmers and smallholders in developing countries. Pastures and rangelands...

CLEANED training take two: Kenya

by José Luis Urrea | Dec 20, 2018

Written by Jessica Mukiri The second CLEANED training occurred Nov. 21-23. Similar to the previous training in Rwanda, the participants were personnel from the livestock sectors, this time from Ethiopia and Kenya. Participants included researchers, livestock...

CLEANED training kicked off in Kigali Rwanda

by José Luis Urrea | Dec 20, 2018

Written by Jessica Mukiri A team from the Tropical Forages Program at CIAT has been working on CLEANED*, an Excel-based ex-ante tool that assesses the environmental impacts of livestock, over the past four years. The tool’s first version was published at the beginning...