by Madelline Romero | May 15, 2018
CATAS and CIAT set priority agenda for collaborative research in China and Southeast Asia China is a major importer of agricultural products and ASEAN’s biggest trading partner. With nearly two billion people and many rapidly urbanizing areas between them, it comes as...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | May 15, 2018
Technicians perform visual scoring of select rice breeding lines that resistant and susceptible to the hoja blanca virus. Photo by: FLAR It’s a sight no rice farmer in Colombia or elsewhere in Latin America would like to see: stunted rice plants with bleached white...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | May 9, 2018
Sebastian Grey makes a presentation on the Ethiopia climate-smart agriculture (CSA) country profile. He is the CIAT CSA country profiles coordinator. Photo by: T. Muchaba / CCAFS CIAT is rolling out climate-smart agriculture (CSA) profiles for four additional African...
by Sylvain Delerce | May 9, 2018
Four representatives of CIAT’s team win the 2018 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics. From left to right: Nicolas Martin (INFORMS, chair of the prize), Hugo Andrés Dorado (CIAT), Andrés Aguilar (CIAT), Daniel Jiménez (CIAT), Sylvain Delerce (CIAT), and Daniel...
by Adriana Varón | May 9, 2018
Have you ever heard of the Internet of Things (IoT), that is, the possibility to connect devices used on a daily basis (phones, computers, sensors) to internet and how to handle that information? If you would like to know more about it and its application in...
by Glenn Hyman | May 7, 2018
We invite you to join The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in an unprecedented effort to collectively map agricultural expansion and land degradation in the Latin American region through an expert survey based on the input of many and diverse professionals, including you....
by Sebastian Grey | May 2, 2018
At an event held on 27 March 2018 at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the recently developed Ethiopia Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Country Profile was officially shared with national stakeholders and partners....
by Sylvia Pineda | Apr 27, 2018
“Being a plant breeder is not a job, it’s a mission in life. The leading actor of this award is cassava, for it’s a fascinating crop.” – Dr. Hernán Ceballos. Dr. Hernán Ceballos, a plant breeder at CIAT’s Cassava Program, and Alfred Dixon, IITA Director of the...
by Sylvia Pineda | Apr 25, 2018
Gloria Rengifo has led CIAT’s Finance and Administration area for three years now, but her story within the Center begins 15 years back as an administrative assistant. I talked to her some days ago to get acquainted with her journey at CIAT, the operations in...
by Ruben G. Echeverría | Apr 15, 2018
Over the course of 50 years, CIAT had distinguished itself for its contributions to development through innovative agricultural research across the tropics. Building on this track record, we move forward into the next half century committed to better understanding and...
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