Corpoica and CIAT: committed to developing a better seed collection management system

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 30, 2016

The Colombian Agricultural Research Corporation (Corpoica) and CIAT are part of a global community of practice committed to developing a set of tools that facilitate proper management of germplasm collections and respond to users’ needs, from small producers to...

CIAT and partners fight cassava diseases in Southeast Asia with new project

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Nov 29, 2019

In Southeast Asia (SEA) cassava is both a food crop and an industrial crop. This gives the plant, which is used for its roots, the distinction of being both a key to food security and a source of income to the two million smallholder farmers who produce it across the...

Conservation agriculture meets relay cropping

by Rosemary Nzuki | Jun 28, 2019

Authors: Job Kihara, Isaiah Nyagumbo, Dias Domingos and Michael Kinyua Climate change and variability are resulting in reduced and sometimes lost productivity requiring substantial changes in farming practices. Traditional practices involving excessive tillage...

Tackling Cassava Mosaic Disease in Southeast Asia

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...

New, improved bean varieties enhance food security and diet diversity in Malawi

by Enid Katungi | Sep 29, 2017

Our recent study, conducted to evaluate the performance of PABRA over the last two decades, shows remarkable achievements in terms of productivity and the number of people using improved bean varieties. Varietal output, proportion of households using the improved bean...