WOCAT – success stories that the world can learn from

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 18, 2017

Food security depends on productive crop and pasture land. Yet these are increasingly threatened by challenges including climate change, land degradation and competition over limited resources. Currently over half of the land used for agriculture worldwide is...

Kenya’s drought masks a deeper problem with livestock feed

by Georgina Smith | May 12, 2017

This opinion piece first appeared in Kenya’s Business Daily Newspaper on May 1st. As this week’s Nairobi Burger Festival draws to a close, we revisit the underlying cause of a spike in milk prices and draw attention to an issue which could bring us fewer burgers...

All you need is love… and water

by Georgina Smith | Feb 16, 2017

All you need is love... and water ; If you were lucky enough to receive roses this Valentine’s Day, they could well have come from Kenya. Within 24 hours of being cut, millions of roses, like these grown on the banks of the Tana River watershed were whisked off to...

Responding to climate shocks at community level in Kenya

by Georgina Smith | Feb 15, 2017

Responding to climate shocks at community level: new profiles offer Kenya a roadmap ; Kenya has been bracing itself for drought since last year. Three in four Kenyans live in rural areas and depend on agriculture – a sector accounting for half of GDP. County Director...

Climate change: coming to a supermarket near you

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Nov 4, 2016

A new documentary about how climate change will affect both coffee producers in Colombia and consumers in the developed world will air on German television this weekend. (Sunday, 6/11-4:30pm). Climate change in the supermarket aims to show how the often abstract news...