CIAT‘s Cutting Edge Research Results in One Place

by Sylvia Pineda | Aug 24, 2017

By: Perla Castillo & Janelee Waldock The CGIAR and CIAT have gone through transformational changes in the past decade, and recently we are driven by an aspiration to become a learning organisation. Future success depends on our ability to track and demonstrate...

Aclímate Colombia (Acclimatize Colombia), a new light for Colombian farmers

by Sylvia Pineda | Aug 22, 2017

For the purpose of helping Colombian farmers be more prepared to face new climate patterns and adapt better to climate variability, CIAT, through its area of research in Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA), trained the agro-climatology and systems teams from the...

How much carbon is stored within the transformed landscapes of the Amazon?

by Karolina Argote | Aug 17, 2017

Within the project Sustainable Amazonian Landscapes (SAL), we are going to answer this question by using test plots to estimate the amount of carbon and vegetative biodiversity that exists under different land use scenarios present within the anthropogenically...

Can development and conservation go hand in hand in Colombia’s Orinoquia region?

by Glenn Hyman | Aug 10, 2017

A diverse group of environmental and private sector specialists met in Bogotá last week to discuss how to achieve sustainable development in Colombia’s Orinoquia region. Meeting participants explored possible scenarios of sustainable development that reconcile nature...

A different kind of scarecrow

by Maria Eliza Villarino | Aug 10, 2017

At noon, a 60-year-old farmer ends his lunch and checks an app on his mobile phone. The next day, he spreads fertilizer on his crop. That’s happening in Japan. And that could be the future in Colombia and beyond, where food producers make fast, smart, and precise...

By breathing new life into dormant data, we can see the future

by Andy Jarvis | Aug 3, 2017

Uber disrupted taxis; Tinder disrupted dating. It’s about time we disrupted food. Because something clearly isn’t working. If a fridge can tell me exactly when a stick of celery is about to reach its expiry date, why is agriculture – something we’ve been doing...

Yes, efforts to reduce deforestation and build peace can take the same road

by Adriana Varón | Aug 3, 2017

Yes, efforts to reduce deforestation and build peace can take the same road What can the countries who are currently fighting to slow down deforestation and the degradation of their forests possibly have in common? A lot! In addition to sharing negative impacts for...

“Why does CIAT need IP if we generate international public goods?” An update of intellectual property (IP) management at CIAT

by Sylvia Pineda | Aug 1, 2017

By: Carolina Roa. You may have asked this question yourself and have different conceptions of IP; for some of you “IP” might conjure mainly patents, for others, it could mean copyright or other forms of formal rights protecting creations of the mind. Yet IP is much...

Characterizing agrobiodiversity in one valley: Worlds of two ethnic minority communities, at different scales: An intern perspective

by Madelline Romero | Jul 26, 2017

by Charlotte Phillips| Jul 26, 2017 As my first time in Asia, a recent graduate of Biological Sciences and interested in the conservation of agrobiodiversity and food sustainability, I joined the CIAT Asia team at the beginning of February for a 3-month student...

Social dimensions of a cassava production and value-chain: Why do the poor continue with unsustainable cassava production?

by Madelline Romero | Jul 26, 2017

Cassava trial fields in Son La, Vietnam. Photo by Hieu Trong. Grabbed from Facebook group, ACIAR Cassava Value Chain and Livelihood Program. by Nozomi Kawarazuka| Jul 26, 2017 The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) has been working with the...