by Stefan De Haan | Apr 6, 2017
By Stef de Haan (CIAT) and Karl Zimmerer (Pennsylvania State University) The biodiversity of domesticated biota and food-supplying ecosystems holds unparalleled importance for breeding and crop and livestock improvement. This importance has fueled decades-long...
by Sylvia Pineda | Apr 3, 2017
By: Cecile Grenier During the CIAT–Cirad–Embrapa breeders’ workshop (March 20th to 22nd in Goiania, Brazil) a special event was organized by Embrapa to recognize the contribution of 50 years of CIAT’s rice research in Latin America and the Caribbean and...
by Sylvia Pineda | Apr 3, 2017
By: Cecile Grenier On March 20th to 22nd, a meeting was held at Embrapa Rice and Beans Research Center (CNPAF) in Goiania, Brazil, to strengthen the rice breeding alliance among CIAT, Cirad and Embrapa. Scientists from these three institutions highlighted the advances...
by Adriana Varón | Mar 30, 2017
He proudly says that he has known CIAT for the past 50 years. When he was a little boy, his father brought him to the Center uncountable times; few years later he came back as a college student; then, being director of the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources...
by Natalia Gutiérrez | Mar 28, 2017
Over the past few years, the Malawi tea industry has seen a decrease in production mainly because of erratic rainfall, which has led to either floods or droughts. These changes in climate conditions require producers to adapt their practices to secure a sustainable...
by Claudia Calderón | Mar 28, 2017
#CIATforward Visions of a sustainable food future Stefan de Haan, Regional Program Management Officer (Vietnam) “A new food paradigm is emerging in Vietnam that is focused on quality rather than quantity, diversity rather than uniformity, and the importance of...
by Diana Carolina Giraldo | Mar 27, 2017
The new Bristol for farmers “A real picture of customs, when a scream breaks the dialogue of the lady, the Bristol, take the 2009 Bristol, a thousand no more! offers the edition of the picturesque almanac – an orange booklet only 30 pages long in which forecasts,...
by Georgina Smith | Mar 24, 2017
A new study shows that Rwanda’s One Cow per Poor Family program can significantly cut food insecurity – and with improved cattle feeding, it can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity too. The study, conducted by CIAT with partners including the Rwanda...
by Martha Del Río | Mar 23, 2017
By Stefania Sellitti, Martha Del Río, and Natalia Gutiérrez Since its beginning in the 20th century, the entire Fair Trade movement has been organized under a single labeling organization, known as Fair Trade International. After diverging from Fair Trade...
by José Antonio Arana | Mar 23, 2017
Fifty years of CIAT. Five decades of collective enthusiasm to improve farmers’ livelihoods and food security in the tropics. Everyone at CIAT has been involved in the goal of advancing each day in fulfilling the institutional mission, some take longer, others less....
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