Climate-Smart Agriculture
Bean power: Finger on the pulse of a drought-resilient future
Against a hilly backdrop, Daud Bukuku examines a handful of brown beans from a large basket. The open fields behind him have just been harvested: his plot is freshly harvested. But he’s lucky to have had a harvest at all – the beans he proudly shows us didn’t crop up for everyone.
A team that´s bringing the Big Data revolution to agriculture
Just as CIAT scientists anticipated more than 6 years ago, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and other key international institutions now affirm that Big Data will be the driver of the next revolution in agriculture.
New daily climate data for crop growth simulation available
A new interface was developed to query and download future daily bias corrected data for crop growth modeling, which will help improve our understanding of the effects of climate change on agriculture.
Big data, the key for tomorrow´s agriculture
“There is no greater feeling than being at the right time at the right place to dare outline the trends of the future agriculture that we need to start strengthening as of today,” said Daniel Jiménez, CIAT’s Data and agronomy scientist, to define his experience participating in the Information and Communication Technology for Agriculture (ICTforAg 2016) Conference carried out in Washington D.C.
Guiding decision making in agriculture for a triple-win
Action towards specific global emission targets can’t happen without guidance on what change needs to happen and where. To that end, this new study outlines a methodology tried and tested within communities. It’s called the “Climate smart agriculture rapid appraisal” tool.
Big Data for Climate Smart Agriculture in Kenya
The first Big Data for Agriculture Roadshow in East Africa is another event held in Africa with support from CIAT and the World Bank Group.
Winter is coming
Given the climate prediction models that indicate that winter is coming, is Colombia ready to face another winter 2016-2017 like La Niña 2010-2011?
Big Data for Climate Smart Agriculture in Uganda
Big Data is taken Uganda. CIAT and the World Bank Group present at this important event.
No compromise: food security and carbon hoofprints
Sessions at this week's Africa Agriculture Science Week this week (June 13-17) in Kigali included discussion on the potential of livestock forages to boost farm production and sequester carbon. At night, Rwanda’s capital Kigali is a sparkling carpet of lights. Yet the...
“This is not just about assets”: New insights into social determinants of resilience
Recent research published last month challenges our conventional model of what determines household and community resilience in low income countries
About Climate-Smart Agriculture
Agriculture accounts for over a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions, in some countries even more. But as well as being a big contributor to climate change, agriculture can also be a major part of the solution. CIAT is helping shape a farming future that is cleaner, greener, more productive and more resilient.
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