Jefferson Valencia is Awarded a Fellowship to attend Purdue University

by Sylvia Pineda | Aug 14, 2019

CIAT is proud! Jefferson Valencia, young scientist from the Agroecosystems and Sustainable Landscapes (ASL) area at CIAT, was awarded a Borlaug fellowship and will attend Purdue University in Indiana, United States, to pursue an internship to implement a hydrological...

Preparing Ghanaian cocoa farmers for changing climate conditions

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Aug 8, 2019

By Leila Serwaah Khalid and Natalia Gutiérrez CIAT collaborates with CocoaLink to help young farmers mitigate the negative effects of climate change through digital maps Ghana is one of the largest cocoa-producing countries, with over 40% of the population relying on...

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....

Lizette Díaz: a charcoal that could open a ‘black box’

by Sylvia Pineda | Aug 5, 2019

CHAMPIONS OF CIAT Lizette Díaz: a charcoal that could open a ‘black box’ por Erika Mosquera | Ago 5, 2019 Lizette Díaz is Industrial Engineer from the Julio Garavito Colombian School of Engineering, and Master in Administration with an emphasis in finance from the...

Terra-i user manual for monitoring land-cover changes is now available

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jul 24, 2019

By: Paula A. Paz and Jhon Jairo Tello Terra-i, a project by CIAT’s Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) and Agroecosystems and Sustainable Landscapes (ASL) research areas, presents its “User manual – Near real-time monitoring system for the detection of vegetation loss...