by Glenn Hyman | Jun 21, 2019
The 2019 Global Forest Watch (GFW) Summit, held in Washington DC this week, opened with a retrospective on how deforestation monitoring systems have matured since their broad development in the early 2010s. Several Latin America countries have their own dedicated...
by Miguel Antonio Romero | Jun 17, 2019
In its final stage, the Sustainable Amazonian Landscapes project developed a platform called Voices, where farmers and decision-makers talk about their experience with the project. The Sustainable Amazonian Landscapes project (SAL) has focused efforts on disseminating...
by Sean Mattson | Jun 13, 2019
Vanishing animals command headlines but declining plant diversity also imperils humans. Researchers and educators explain how curing “plant blindness” is essential to saving biodiversity and ourselves. Food plants are a great place to dig in. From our perches in the...
by Sean Mattson | Jun 13, 2019
Building on the success of the Climate-Smart Agriculture Country Profiles, CIAT, together with the World Bank and FAO, is leading an initiative to create profiles for digital agriculture, starting with Argentina, Grenada, Kenya, Turkey and Vietnam. Digital...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 11, 2019
Authored by: Stanley Karanja Ng’ang’a, Ph.D, and Dorcas Onyango Jalang’o, M.Sc. A new study on socioeconomic factors that constrain or facilitate the adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices in Western Kenya by CIAT examines the role of soil carbon on household...
by Sylvia Pineda | Jun 5, 2019
CHAMPIONS OF CIAT Jacobo Arango, Lead Author of the Sixth IPCC Assessment Report By Sylvia Pineda | Jun 5, 2019 Photo: José Luis Urrea / CIAT Jacobo Arango, environmental biologist from the Tropical Forages Program at CIAT, is one of the lead authors from the...
by Sylvia Pineda | Jun 5, 2019
The Germplasm Health Unit (GHU), which is part of the Genetic Resources Program at CIAT, obtained Official Registration as an approved laboratory to conduct phytosanitary diagnoses, through a resolution issued by the Government of Colombia, the Ministry of Agriculture...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 4, 2019
The focus on the negative impacts of livestock overshadows its multiple positive contributions to livelihoods of smallholders in Africa in terms of nutrition, draft power, manure for soil fertilization, asset and risk management. For example in Ethiopia, people...
by Sylvia Pineda | May 31, 2019
To expand its support for young agricultural entrepreneurs, or “agripreneurs,” and to help cultivate the next crop of farmers in Africa, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) signed a hosting and collaboration agreement with the Climate Smart...
by Sean Mattson | May 28, 2019
Unchecked emissions will reduce land suitable for rice in Colombia, underscoring how geography limits options for crops. Unlike China, where rice paddies can move to higher latitudes, Colombian production may go to higher altitudes without climate action Without...
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