by Sylvia Pineda | Apr 25, 2019
Michael Peters has led the Tropical Forages Program at CIAT for 12 years now, but his history with forages began 30 years ago, when he started pursuing a Master’s degree in Tropical Forages at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Mar 27, 2019
A series of webinars on climate change and agriculture allowed a panel of scientific experts and more than 100 journalists to discuss how to cover these stories in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Southeast Asia. The series featured scientists from the...
by Sylvia Pineda | Mar 26, 2019
A new cost-benefit analysis by CIAT examines three practices for improved livestock management in Ethiopia: improved rangeland, restoration of degraded land, and fodder cropping. Preliminary findings suggest all three practices are better than business as usual and...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | Mar 12, 2019
Colombia has set ambitious targets to mitigate climate change and achieve stability. One promising approach to help achieve those simultaneously is designing and promoting sustainable land use systems that incorporate the views of all the stakeholders in the value...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Feb 6, 2019
Agriculture is both a driver and a casualty of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that 10–12 percent of human-produced greenhouse gas emissions come from agricultural activities. These emissions, in turn, contribute to...