by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 18, 2017
Food security depends on productive crop and pasture land. Yet these are increasingly threatened by challenges including climate change, land degradation and competition over limited resources. Currently over half of the land used for agriculture worldwide is...
by José Antonio Arana | Jun 15, 2017
“All of you here have built CIAT’S future.” This was the message that Joe Tohme, director of CIAT’s agrobiodiversity area, gave to the 500 former employees who came to the Center on June 9 to celebrate the Great Reunion, as part of the celebration of CIAT’s fiftieth...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 15, 2017
This week, African Agribusiness Incubation Network (AAIN) Chief Executive Officer Dr. Alex Ariho, and Human and Institutional, Capacity Development Officer Dr. James Aucha, visited CIAT in Nairobi to sign a Memorandum of Understanding and discuss collaboration between...
by Job Kihara | Jun 14, 2017
By Job Kihara, Peter Bolo, Michael Kinyua, John Mukalama, Rolf Sommer, and Andrew Margenot. “Where farmyard manure has been added, there is living soil. But the soil is dead where there is only mineral fertilizer application”. This statement by Erest Omulama, a...
by Megan Zandstra | Jun 7, 2017
Many university and public libraries have abandoned their old books and study rooms in favour of bright, open, communal workspaces – spaces to drink coffee, meet with colleagues, and enjoy a change of scenery. CIAT Learning Commons is a space for CIAT staff and...
by Claudia Calderón | Jun 5, 2017
By Guy Henry | Jun 05, 2017 Over 80% of the Latin American population now lives in urban areas. Many of them are poor and have limited access to healthy food at affordable prices. As a result, they suffer disproportionately from a double burden: hunger and...
by Robert Andrade | Jun 1, 2017
Big Data and its need for unicorns By Robert Andrade | Jun 01, 2017 There is no doubt that big data* has become a valuable commodity for this century. A recent article in The Economist entitled Fuel of the future: Data is giving rise to a new economy states that data...
by Natalia Gutiérrez | May 30, 2017
In the midst of the ten blocks that comprise Remolinos del Caguán, in the Caguán River that borders it and in the Amazon jungle that shelters it, the legacy of father Jacinto Franzoi remains intact: no to coca, yes to cacao. In this remote town of Cartagena del...
by Georgina Smith | May 29, 2017
Good NEWS for the Fight Against Malnutrition Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Power a Nutrition Early Warning System (NEWS) for Africa Since at least the 1970s, food crises have seemed to strike sub-Saharan Africa with depressing frequency They often require...
by Sylvia Pineda | May 25, 2017
By: Christophe Bene The New Urban Agenda adopted by the UN General Assembly on 23 December 2016 is centered on sustainability and equity. The vision of the declaration is one of ‘cities for all, referring to the equal use and enjoyment of cities and human settlements,...
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