by Sylvia Pineda | Jul 27, 2018
With the aim of measuring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in real time, CIAT carried out the first training in the Eddy Covariance system under the project “Ecological Productivity Management Information System in Colombia (EcoProMIS)”. EcoProMIS is an online platform...
by Sylvia Pineda | Jul 25, 2018
By: Arely Valdivia Araica The 54th Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Food Crops Society, organized by the Caribbean Food Crops Society in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture of Belize, was held in Belize City. Within the framework of this event, Victoriano...
by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Jul 17, 2018
Sustainable agriculture and livestock for dry tropical forest conservation por Erika Eliana Mosquera | Jul 16, 2018 The cotton-top tamarin monkey is just one example of the richness, in terms of biodiversity, that lives in the dry forest and is currently threatened....
by Sylvia Nyawira | Jul 16, 2018
Soil sampling (photo cred: Kate Kuntu-Blankson). As a scientist, a question often asked by my colleagues and friends is: does my day-to-day research contribute to transforming society, and if so, how? This question can be challenging to answer, as researchers tend to...
by Madelline Romero | Jul 13, 2018
CIAT Director General Ruben Echeverria and Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development-International Cooperation Director General Tran Kim Long, at the signing of an expanded cooperation agreement in Hanoi this week. Photo by Madelline Romero/CIAT...
by José Luis Urrea | Jul 12, 2018
Cows are getting more popular – and not for good reasons, but rather for looking like the new villains. Land-use change and feed production, among others, are the main sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cattle production, making livestock one of the top...
by Madelline Romero | Jul 11, 2018
Photo by Madelline Romero/CIAT Public-private partnership (PPP) has been touted as the sustainable way forward for development interventions. But how do you know whether the intervention is creating the positive impacts that project developers hope it would? Recently,...
by Sylvia Pineda | Jul 10, 2018
By: Ivy Kinyua Recently, The Africa CSA summit in Nairobi, Kenya, was organized by the Aid & International Development Forum. The event brought together thought leaders at non-governmental organizations, government agencies, research institutes, private sector,...
by Sylvia Pineda | Jul 6, 2018
Elizabeth Álvarez is an Agricultural Engineer from the National University of Colombia, Palmira campus. She started her scientific activities at CIAT in 1980, where she always stood out for her relentless scientific curiosity. This is the reason why, as the working...
by Madelline Romero | Jun 29, 2018
How sweetpotato provides better incomes for farmers in Quang Binh Written by Hang Thi Le A single parent to two children, Nguyen Thi Hoan from Village 6 in Quang Thach commune, Quang Trach district, Quang Binh province is a hardworking, open-minded farmer. Having...
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