International analytics award goes to CGIAR centers for sustainable agriculture tools

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 2, 2020

By CIMMYT The 2020 IAAA award recognizes groundbreaking data systems and tools helping more than 150,000 farmers in Mexico. While technology and data analysis have revolutionized farming in high-income countries, farmers in low-income nations have often been left out....

Distributing high-iron and zinc bean varieties to women farmers during COVID-19

by CIAT Comunicaciones | May 14, 2020

Figure 1: Agricultural officer Florence Mwachugha providing farmer-to-farmer crop management training; Smart Logistics weighing the seeds for purchase from the Ushirikiano Women SHG in Nakuru (from left to right). By Eileen Nchanji Achieving food and nutritional...

Training Heifer International on Market System Development

by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Mar 27, 2020

By Christine Chege and Kevin Omondi Onyango Adopting a holistic approach would help achieve systemic change within a specific market system that would be more sustainable than only targeting one or a few actors.  Supporting 100 million people to attain a living income...

Milking opportunity in the foothills of Mount Kenya

by Rosemary Nzuki | Feb 13, 2020

Children at Simon and Sylvia’s dairy farm in Meru, Kenya, drinking milk. (Photo: Georgina Smith). Written by Georgina Smith and Rosemary Nzuki. When Simon and Sylvia Kiruja started their farm three years ago, they never imagined it would get so big they would need a...

The wild relatives of major vegetables, needed for climate resilience, are in danger

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jan 23, 2020

The wild relatives of chile peppers, pumpkins, carrots, and lettuce join a growing list of poorly conserved plant species. These ancient plants have genes that may help our food withstand the harsh climate of our future. If they don’t go extinct first Growing up in...