by Andy Jarvis | Jun 6, 2020
Dr. Myles Fisher, an Emeritus of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, and a groundbreaking agricultural scientist passed away on the 27th of May. He suffered a stroke, which mercifully was sudden and painless. Myles was my colleague, my mentor, and my...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | May 6, 2020
Pig production is an important source of livelihoods for many smallholder farmers in Uganda. Authors: John Mutua, Birthe Paul, Mireille Ferrari (ILRI) and Rosemary Nzuki, Global heat stress is a growing problem that stands to impact health, livelihoods and the very...
by Adriana Varón | Apr 17, 2020
Javier Gereda, Genetic Resources Program researcher, in one of his activities for bean seed regeneration, along with his colleague Yeferson Hernández. Making sure that the collections of beans, cassava, bananas, and forages remain alive, even during the quarantine, is...
by Rosemary Nzuki | Feb 13, 2020
Children at Simon and Sylvia’s dairy farm in Meru, Kenya, drinking milk. (Photo: Georgina Smith). Written by Georgina Smith and Rosemary Nzuki. When Simon and Sylvia Kiruja started their farm three years ago, they never imagined it would get so big they would need a...
by José Luis Urrea | Dec 21, 2019
Unlike humans, cows have the ability to convert grass into foods of high nutritional value such as meat and milk. This is because one of their stomachs, rumen, is responsible for the fermentation process that converts pasture into milk precursors. However, other...