Exploit local-level opportunities for sustainable land management: Lessons from a multistakeholder platform in Tanzania

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Mar 2, 2020

By Caroline Mwongera With climate change, the issues of land are becoming more important. Land conditions are vulnerable to ongoing climate change, including increased rainfall intensity, flooding, drought frequency and severity, heat stress, dry spells, wind and...

To improve nutrition for the poorest consumers, try a market-based approach

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...

How we are contributing in Asia with the Zero Draft of the Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition

by Tuyen Huynh | Aug 12, 2019

(Tuyen Huynh & Madelline Romero, CIAT) ‘Globally, our diets are killing us, Jessica Fanzo has reported in the event on Food systems and Nutrition. Diets are now the top risk factor of disease, disability and death. It is also showed in the presentation by Jessica...

Partnerships accelerating gains towards food security

by Rosemary Nzuki | Aug 8, 2019

Towards the end July, National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) representatives from eight countries in Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia converged in Tanzania to take stock of the concluding Tropical Legumes project that has been going on for the past 12 years....

Sustainable Food Systems: Agriculture-Nutrition Linkages

by Rosemary Nzuki | Jul 11, 2019

All through her schooling life, Christine was convinced she was going to study Economics and Finance. She was sure that this would be the solution to growing the economy of Kenya. It naturally followed that, for her undergraduate studies, she enrolled for a Bachelor’s...