by CIAT Comunicaciones | Dec 14, 2019
Food system solutions at the nexus of agriculture, environment, and nutrition Our planet – both humans and the natural world – faces four global crises of relevance to the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture...
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...
by Anton Eitzinger | Nov 20, 2019
Everyone in the coffee industry craves information, perhaps even more than a morning jolt of caffeine. Across Uganda – one of the world’s top ten coffee producers – scientists, producers, industry, and the government collect data on coffee production. They do this to...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Oct 18, 2019
Malnutrition remains a serious problem for many people in East Africa. Poor consumers are willing to pay a premium for healthier foods, pointing to a new strategy for improving nutrition at a large scale Ugandans and Kenyans in poor urban households are willing to pay...
by Sean Mattson | Oct 16, 2019
Faridah Nakimbugwe (green dress), holds a packet of Super Kawomera outside a home in the Kampala, Uganda neighborhood of Nabulagala. Uganda’s newest health food craze began in the slums of Kampala. It started when a handful of women tried an unusual porridge, which is...