by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jul 12, 2019
Biofortification, or the genetic improvement of crops for better nutritional value, is an effort that was born in 1994 under the guidance of World Food Prize laureate Howdy Bouis. Biofortification seeks to address micronutrient deficiencies, or “hidden hunger,” by...
by Rosemary Nzuki | Jul 11, 2019
All through her schooling life, Christine was convinced she was going to study Economics and Finance. She was sure that this would be the solution to growing the economy of Kenya. It naturally followed that, for her undergraduate studies, she enrolled for a Bachelor’s...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jul 11, 2019
Cross-posted from: CCAFS The average African farmer’s age is nearly 60. Stakeholders come together to brainstorm pathways of inspiring young people into agriculture. With the average African farmer’s age hitting nearly 60 years, the sector’s stakeholders have been...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jul 10, 2019
USADF and CIAT provide funding and support for award-winning Mastercard solution Kampala, Uganda July 10, 2019 – Mastercard has today announced the signing of two public-private partnerships that will extend the reach of the Mastercard Farmers Network (MFN)...
by Sylvia Pineda | Jul 9, 2019
By: Dindo Campilan and Nguyen Tra My In further strengthening scientific cooperation, CIAT and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (CAAS) is establishing a Joint Laboratory in Advanced Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in Beijing. The Letter of...
by Sylvia Pineda | Jul 8, 2019
Manual labor, machinery, and equipment are essential agricultural inputs; they are so critical that in their absence, agricultural food production would not be possible. Under some circumstances, what hinders crop production is having no access to enough machinery to...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jul 5, 2019
Crops such as bananas, potatoes and cassava are essential to food security in the world’s poorest regions. By 2050, their importance will increase, but climate change and population growth will put unprecedented pressure on production. Climate change and population...
by Miguel Antonio Romero | Jul 4, 2019
Validating sustainable production alternatives as a strategy for reducing deforestation in the Caquetá department, Colombia, coupled with information generated about systems sustainability, served as a pilot platform to simulate application and uptake of a new...
by Rosemary Nzuki | Jun 28, 2019
Authors: Job Kihara, Isaiah Nyagumbo, Dias Domingos and Michael Kinyua Climate change and variability are resulting in reduced and sometimes lost productivity requiring substantial changes in farming practices. Traditional practices involving excessive tillage...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 28, 2019
More than 20 percent of the five staple crops that provide half the globe’s caloric intake are lost to pests each year. Climate change and global trade drive the spread, emergence, and re-emergence of crop disease, and containment action is often inefficient,...
“Foreign” crops – from maize to mangoes – dominate national ... 
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“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 ...