by Sylvia Pineda | Jul 9, 2019
By: Dindo Campilan and Nguyen Tra My In further strengthening scientific cooperation, CIAT and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (CAAS) is establishing a Joint Laboratory in Advanced Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in Beijing. The Letter of...
by José Luis Urrea | Dec 20, 2018
Written by Jessica Mukiri A team from the Tropical Forages Program at CIAT has been working on CLEANED*, an Excel-based ex-ante tool that assesses the environmental impacts of livestock, over the past four years. The tool’s first version was published at the beginning...
by Madelline Romero | May 28, 2018
Sinh Somphavong, a farmer for 33 years in Xieng Khouang province northeast of Laos, farms on more than one ha of land, and earns about 50 million kip (around US$6,000) each year from selling rice, vegetables, forages, and livestock. Livestock is his major income...
by Tiffany Talsma | Mar 21, 2018
Farmer carrying sack of coffee beans. Photo credit: Neil Palmer (CIAT) The op-ed was originally posted on Medium. No matter what some may say about the private sector, one thing that is true is that when it commits to a cause, it can move mountains. Addressing climate...
by Madelline Romero | Feb 1, 2018
Plant roots are assessed for mycorrhiza, a symbiosis between fungi and roots of the plant. Photo by Madelline Romero/CIAT As Asian agriculture increasingly intensifies to satisfy food and income demands of a growing population, it meets with the reality of soil...