by Sylvia Pineda | Oct 2, 2018
By: Cesar Botero Roots allow plants to hold on to soil in the face of potential risks that may threaten them; including winds and flooding and even drought. By embracing soils, roots protect plants from likely degradation processes. CIAT, acting through its...
by Le Pham | Sep 27, 2018
Data collection in Moc Chau Son La. Photo: Trang Nguyen CIAT and the National Institute of Nutrition of Vietnam (NIN) launched a collaborative Partial Food Systems Baseline Assessment at different sites in the country. The aim of the study is to elucidate specific...
by Sylvia Pineda | Sep 25, 2018
As part of project funded by the RCUK-CIAT Newton-Caldas Fund Sustainable Tropical Agricultural Systems Programme, researchers from CIAT, University of Glasgow, University of Bristol, University of Antioquia, and the University of Cauca spent four days at Patía in...
by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Sep 18, 2018
Photo credit: © reidy68 / Pixabay Hard choices will have to be made soon about the way we eat. Are we ready for the bitter bites? Our food system is failing us! We see it every day. While almost 1 billion people are still struggling to ensure that they have enough...
by Natalia Gutiérrez | Sep 13, 2018
Nutritious and affordable porridge flours launched to address malnutrition in East Africa By: Christine Chege and Patricia Onyango The multi-composite, safe, nutritious, and affordable porridge flours aimed at diversifying diets of consumers have been launched in...
by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Sep 13, 2018
What an outcome is? What is an output? What is the difference between an outcome and the impact? Wait a minute! We don’t already know that? This is an international center, right? Sometimes thinking that I already know something could be more dangerous than to ask...
by Sylvia Pineda | Sep 10, 2018
By: José Luis Urrea. The second meeting of the Colombian Forage Network was held on 5–6 September 2018 at the Nataima Research Center located in Espinal, Tolima department, where advances made by the CIAT-Agrosavia project were showcased. CIAT’s Tropical Forages team...
by José Luis Urrea | Aug 30, 2018
At its inception, CIAT recognized that exploiting the huge potential of the tropical lowlands would require a strong focus on beef production as one of the most important commodity produced in the region, with a strong market potential, and to address perceived...
by Diana Carolina Lopera | Aug 28, 2018
Elise Talsma (Wageningen University) and Diana Carolina Lopera (CIAT), two members of the CIAT team awardee of one of IMMANA (Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Action) grants, took part in the 3rd Annual Agriculture, Nutrition & Health...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Aug 23, 2018
Resilience is a concept that is being applied to many different domains, from infrastructure’s response to extreme events to a child facing domestic violence. “Is there a common unit of resilience, relevant to all those different cases?” was the question behind a...
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