by CIAT Comunicaciones | Nov 28, 2018
Juan Lucas Restrepo will become Bioversity International’s Director General in March 2019. In 2020, Restrepo will become CEO of the Alliance between Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture. The Boards of Trustees of Bioversity...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Nov 27, 2018
The International Center for Tropical Agriculture has collaborated for more than 50 years with hundreds of partners across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). We work with government agencies and other partners by providing scientific and technical support and...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Nov 27, 2018
Photo: Chris Béné, CIAT Cross-posted from ITAD ‘Adaptive Social Protection’ (ASP) came from a realization that social protection, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation were three communities of practice linked by the same fundamental objective of...
by Sean Mattson | Nov 21, 2018
Urgent action is needed to protect thousands of useful wild plants, according to new research; the data strongly suggest international conservation targets for 2020 will not be met — even for ‘commonplace’ wild plants. Headlines about threatened...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Nov 21, 2018
Cross-posted from ITAD What is adaptive social protection? How does it differ from shock responsive social protection? Why does it matter? These were some of the questions we’ve been asked over the past three years while working with governments in the Sahel to help...
by Maria Fernanda Mejia | Nov 15, 2018
It’s true: construction has started on “Future Seeds,” CIAT’s new germplasm bank, which will be the home for more than 67,000 varieties of beans, cassava, and tropical forages that CIAT currently safeguards (Read more…) And last Friday, all the HQ staff received an...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Nov 14, 2018
A total of 200 participants, 70 oral presentations, 170 scientific posters on display, two culinary demonstrations, more than a dozen specialized sessions, visits to laboratories and field trials from the cassava program at CIAT, a new president of the ISTRC, and a...
by Maria Fernanda Mejia | Oct 25, 2018
Tackling Cassava Mosaic Disease in Southeast Asia ; In December 2015, a journal publication reported evidence of Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus (SLCMV) in a single plantation in Ratanakiri province in northeast Cambodia. This was the first time that Cassava Mosaic...
by Sylvia Pineda | Oct 24, 2018
By: Simone Staiger, Head, Knowledge and Learning and Leroy Mwanzia,Chief Data Officer The theme for OA week this year is “Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge.” It incidentally falls on the same year when the five-year transition period for...
by Sylvia Pineda | Oct 23, 2018
Responding to the challenge of improving data collection and monitoring of tropical forages in Colombia, CIAT, in cooperation with the Universities of Glasgow, Bristol, Cauca, and Antioquia, developed working tools and methodologies for the collection, processing, and...
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