Video: How Iron Beans Gained Ground in Rwanda

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Feb 20, 2020

Originally posted by HarvestPlus at https://www.harvestplus.org/knowledge-market/in-the-news/video-how-iron-beans-gained-ground-rwanda “We eat these beans at home. I saw change in my child, who became healthier and weighed very well,” says Jaqueline Mushimiyimana, a...

We bid farewell to Alba Lucía Chaves

by Sylvia Pineda | Nov 25, 2019

CHAMPIONS OF CIAT We bid farewell to Alba Lucía Chaves por Sylvia Pineda| Nov 25, 2019 This text is about a great scientist retiring from CIAT after working as a chemist at the Agrobiodiversity Area for 28 years. Here is the part of her life story spent in this...

What happens in the city when we understand that the rural-urban link is increasingly strong? Cali’s example

by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Oct 4, 2019

Photo credit: G.Smith/CIAT Not a new: agriculture is not an exclusive business from rural areas. For that reason, several years ago, CIAT began to respond to the need of building an inclusive and resilient food system in one of the most important cities in Colombia:...

African policy makers turn on to biofortification

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...

Echo from the 18th Triennial Symposium of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC)

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...