CLEANED training take two: Kenya

by José Luis Urrea | Dec 20, 2018

Written by Jessica Mukiri The second CLEANED training occurred Nov. 21-23. Similar to the previous training in Rwanda, the participants were personnel from the livestock sectors, this time from Ethiopia and Kenya. Participants included researchers, livestock...

CLEANED training kicked off in Kigali Rwanda

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...

Climate services for smarter farming – what’s it all about?

by Maria Eliza Villarino | Oct 5, 2017

Dr. Julian Ramirez-Villegas, a Climate Impacts Scientist, at CIAT and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Photo by: Neil Palmer / CIAT   Over the last few years, CIAT, CCAFS and their partners* have been doing...

CIAT guest editor of the KM4Dev journal on ‘Open research, open data, and your development organization’

by Simone Staiger | Jul 25, 2017

CIAT with lead guest editor Megan Zandstra coordinated the Volume 13, Issue 2 of the KM4Dev Journal on ‘Open research, open data, and your development organization: best practices in information and data management for development’. Guest Editors were...

Enabling knowledge sharing and exchange in gender research across CGIAR: a working paper series

by José Antonio Arana | Jul 17, 2017

This blog was written by Martina Mascarenhas, former Coordinator of Communications and Knowledge sharing for the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network. Adopted in 2012, the CGIAR system level gender strategy set the agenda for how all new global CGIAR Research...