by CIAT Comunicaciones | Oct 18, 2019
Malnutrition remains a serious problem for many people in East Africa. Poor consumers are willing to pay a premium for healthier foods, pointing to a new strategy for improving nutrition at a large scale Ugandans and Kenyans in poor urban households are willing to pay...
by Natalia Gutiérrez | Oct 17, 2019
Blogpost by: Huong Trinh, Erin Esaryk & Huynh Tuyen Vietnam’s economy has been rapidly growing since the economic reforms of the late seventies known as Doi Moi. This drastic growth has increased food security and nutrition for many, but not for all of the...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Oct 17, 2019
Participant from Malian delegation at seed producer cooperative in Lemo Bilbilo District. Photo credit: S. Samuel, CCAFS Cross-posted from IFAD social reporting blog Emerging evidence show that interventions that can fully integrate multiple disciplines have greater...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Oct 16, 2019
Data-driven agriculture can boost smallholder production threatened by variable weather and climate change, but scientists need to work with farmers and governments. A decade of data collection and collaboration in Colombia shows what success looks like Farmers in...
by Sylvia Pineda | Oct 16, 2019
CHAMPIONS OF CIAT Sara Rankin, the researcher from Cali who promotes urban agriculture as more than just producing food por Sylvia Pineda | Oct 16, 2019 Sara Rankin was born in Cali and she is a researcher from the Sustainable Food Systems team at CIAT. This Champion...
by Sean Mattson | Oct 16, 2019
Faridah Nakimbugwe (green dress), holds a packet of Super Kawomera outside a home in the Kampala, Uganda neighborhood of Nabulagala. Uganda’s newest health food craze began in the slums of Kampala. It started when a handful of women tried an unusual porridge, which is...
by Juan Lucas Restrepo | Oct 15, 2019
In his World Food Day blog, Juan Lucas Restrepo, Director General of Bioversity International and CEO-Designate of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, explains why systems thinking is key to fixing the food system and introduces a new strategy for...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Oct 10, 2019
By: Ruben Echeverría, Director General – International Center for Tropical Agriculture The news of Daniel Debouck’s retirement hit me like a 100-kilogram sack of beans falling off a storehouse pile. After four decades leading the management of the world’s...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Oct 10, 2019
Smallholder poverty in sub-Saharan Africa is often linked to sandy soils, which hold little water and are low in nutrients. A new technology may be able to enrich fields and farmers without massive investments in irrigation and fertilizer. Many farmers across...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Oct 7, 2019
With this year’s implementation of a European Union regulation that strictly limits the amount of cadmium permitted in cacao and its products, farmers and other value chain actors need to know if their cacao can be made into products that meet the food safety...
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