by Maria Eliza Villarino | Oct 25, 2017
Symptoms of the disease include short internodes on the stem. Photo by: Georgina Smith / CIAT In Phnom Penh, Cambodia, CIAT lead virologist Wilmer Cuellar stood before Food and Agriculture Organization representatives to confirm the presence and likely spread of...
by Fridah Nyakundi | Oct 23, 2017
Can you imagine if we could accurately predict a looming malnutrition crisis, in the same way, we forecast impending food security problems such as extreme hunger and famine? CIAT is using big data and machine learning to develop a Nutrition Early Warning System...
by Sylvia Pineda | Oct 23, 2017
Sylvia Pineda, a member of the internal communications team at CIAT, visited the Central American regional office in Managua, Nicaragua, on October 16-20. During her visit, topics related to the work carried out by the internal communications team, its achievements,...
by Madelline Romero | Oct 20, 2017
Photo by Madelline Romero/CIAT Cassava currently covers 25 million hectares worldwide, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization – more than all the land in the entire United Kingdom. At this huge scale, the impacts of agriculture on the...
by Adriana Varón | Oct 19, 2017
The vision for a deforestation-free Amazon By Adriana Varón | Apr 27, 2017 The Amazon Vision Program, an initiative of the Colombian Government and supported by the Governments of Norway, the United Kingdom, and Germany, aims to promote a new development model in the...
by Ivy Kinyua | Oct 18, 2017
The Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Country Profile (CP) initiative is a series of publications containing a brief yet comprehensive overview of the agricultural context and challenges in each country through a climate-smart agriculture lens, and provides a snapshot...
by Mercy Lungaho | Oct 18, 2017
At the 2017 Borlaug Dialogue this week, October 18-20, Dr. Mercy Lung’aho says feeding our youth more nutritious food is critical for a prosperous Africa. Her opinion piece was first published by Inter Press Service News Agency. One drizzly morning in some lush...
by Georgina Smith | Oct 13, 2017
Women play an important role in rural agriculture. This International Day of Rural Women, we visit two farmers in Ethiopia who are transforming their rural livelihoods and making a difference in their communities. Bula Muda is a farmer in a rural area a few hour’s...
by Simone Staiger | Oct 13, 2017
Making the annual gathering work for my CIAT colleagues has been one of my motivations for many years. The collaboration with Maya Rajasekharan, CIAT’s Head of research management on what we call the APR (Annual Program Review) has been mostly fruitful. This year...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | Oct 12, 2017
CIAT Research Associate Sandra Valdes holds a petri dish with germinating rice seeds that are part of a a study to prove if a single gene may offer resistance to the destructive hoja blanca virus. Photo by: Neil Palmer / CIAT CIAT Research Assistant Alejandro Brand...
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