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 | Mar 5, 2019
On International Women’s Day, Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) partnered to think about how and why gender matters in agriculture and natural resource management (NRM), and to acknowledge those women who, through...
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,...
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...
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...
by Christian Bunn | Feb 11, 2019
Worldwide demand is growing for cocoa products while production is under pressure from pests and diseases, unsustainable production practices and an adverse changing climate. In a world that is increasingly competing for finite resources, cocoa production will have to...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Feb 7, 2019
IPCC authors meet in Colombia for final stages of Climate Change and Land report by IPCC MEDIA ADVISORY | Feb 7, 2019 GENEVA, Feb 7 –Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) authors will meet in Cali, Colombia, on 11-15 February 2019 to make final preparations...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Feb 6, 2019
Agriculture is both a driver and a casualty of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that 10–12 percent of human-produced greenhouse gas emissions come from agricultural activities. These emissions, in turn, contribute to...
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...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jan 22, 2019
Christine Chege (left) visiting a group of women processing and selling nutrient-dense products in Katsina in north Nigeria. Over the last six months, a team of researchers from International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)’s Sustainable Food Systems initiative...
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