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...

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...

New development partnership brings much-needed investment for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in the Amazon

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Nov 8, 2019

A new, first of its kind impact investment was launched 7 November to bring much-needed financial support for sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon. The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), as a cornerstone investor in the Althelia...

Future Seeds: opening the science of crop conservation to the world

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Oct 10, 2019

By: Ruben Echeverría, Director General – International Center for Tropical Agriculture The news of Daniel Debouck’s retirement hit me like a 100-kilogram sack of beans falling off a storehouse pile. After four decades leading the management of the world’s...

Online tool developed by CIAT helps farmers and buyers interpret EU regulation on cadmium in cacao products

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Oct 7, 2019

With this year’s implementation of a European Union regulation that strictly limits the amount of cadmium permitted in cacao and its products, farmers and other value chain actors need to know if their cacao can be made into products that meet the food safety...