Call for a visiting researcher for Applied Economics Lab

by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Feb 5, 2020

Adapted Icons from: Gan Khoon Lay / The Noun Project The Applied Economics Lab team is looking for a visiting researcher to collaborate in the impact assessment of the Maximizing Opportunities for Coffee and Cacao in the Americas (MOCCA) Project.  The MOCCA Project is...

Ricardo Hernández: a well-kept secret weapon residing in Vietnam

by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Sep 18, 2019

CHAMPIONS OF CIAT Ricardo Hernández: a well-kept secret weapon residing in Vietnam By Erika Mosquera | Sept 18, 2019 Ricardo Hernández is a well-kept secret weapon residing in the Vietnam office for the war against nutritional deficiencies. As part of the Sustainable...

Christian Bunn: making science when uncertainty remains

by Sylvia Pineda | Sep 4, 2019

CHAMPIONS OF CIAT Christian Bunn: making science when uncertainty remains por Erika Mosquera | Sept 4, 2019 Risk is the possibility of something bad happens. So, uncertainty is unavoidable if we want to prevent or manage the risk… because at the end, we are talking...

Think global, act locally: the role of intermediate cities

by Sara Rankin | Aug 26, 2019

Photo credit: Diego Donatres/Wikimedia Commons When talking about strategic land planning, let us not be surprised if we hear more and more about the importance of turning our attention to intermediate cities. According to United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG),...

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...