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Cadmio en el cacao de América Latina y el Caribe: Análisis de la investigación y soluciones potenciales para la mitigación
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/102354
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El cadmio es un metal pesado que se acumula en el cuerpo y afecta nuestra salud. Para controlar la cantidad que consumimos, la UE ha establecido los niveles máximos permitidos para diferentes alimentos. Un reglamento que especifica los niveles máximos de cadmio en los productos de cacao y chocolate…
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Técnicos se capacitan en cómo promocionar y comunicar sobre la biofortificación en la región
Entre el 28 de junio y el 02 de julio se llevó a cabo un taller virtual para el mejoramiento de los procesos de comunicación y mercadeo en la promoción de la biofortificación en la región.
Este forma parte de un programa de capacitación que se implementa desde 2020, cuyo objetivo es…
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La forma en que la Alianza está transformando los mercados alimentarios en América Latina
La Alianza de Acción Alimentaria (FAA), una iniciativa global en sistemas alimentarios, facilitada en América Latina por la Alianza de Bioversity International y el CIAT, promueve una transformación sostenible de los sistemas alimentarios impulsada por el mercado.
Por: Dylan Anderson-Berens…
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Spatial analyses of occurrence data of crop wild relatives (CWR) taxa as tools for selection of sites for conservation of priority CWR in Zambia
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103960
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Crop wild relatives (CWR) are valuable gene pools for crop improvement and offer unique potential and opportunity for enhancing food security and adaptation to climate change. However, current actions towards conservation of plant genetic resources in Zambia do not adequately…
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The Big Data team strengthens relationships with Africa
Hugo Dorado, one of the members of the Big Data group, traveled to Africa as part of CIAT’s Global Staff Exchange Program. For him, this was an opportunity to venture into the analysis of large volumes of data for different projects in new regions.
The objective of the exchange program is to bring together the research areas in the countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and to place the members of the teams in a locality different from their own, for a length of time…
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Climate snapshots help prioritize action in three more countries in Africa
Zambia: Agriculture in Zambia employs almost half of the population and can contribute significantly to increased income generation and economic growth. Unfortunately, much of farming in the country is subsistent and reliant on seasonal rains, so farmers are unable to maximize their production. With increased unpredictability of weather patterns, rural smallholder farmers continue to be affected. This Zambia Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Profile offers possible pathways to…
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One woman’s mission to halt drought
When farmers in Ethiopia’s Tigray province made a desert bloom again, their efforts inspired hundreds of farmers to do the same. One of them, Bekelech Belcachew, was so inspired to change her farming practices that she ended up changing the lives of others too. Back in December 2014, Bekelech was struggling with degraded soil and low productivity on her farm in Hosanna, a district in Ethiopia.
She heard about a trip to visit other farmers in Ethiopia – an exchange visit organized by the …
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CIAT improves writing capacities in Central America
From 23 to 27 October, the CIAT Central America Team attended the Update Workshop on Written Communications with the aim of improving writing skills and abilities of team members in the working context.
The workshop's main objectives were: improving technical report and expository text writing, learn and reassert key criteria to write well and the proper implementation of the elements of grammar. "The strategy of this workshop is based on the constructivist approach to learning. The…
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Dishing up dirt: Haiti, mud cakes and the bumpy road to better nutrition
It was an unusual request: a nutritional assessment of mud. Nevertheless, an unruffled Dayron agreed to run the analysis. I handed him the samples that failed to make the journey from Haiti intact.
Before I could advise otherwise, he broke off a crumb, put it in his mouth, and winced. “Some mud tastes okay,” he confessed. “But this is really bitter.” On the submission form he wrote Torta de barro (mud cake). The assessment would take about a week. It was during…
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Estudio bibliométrico de las publicaciones del CIAT, ciencia en cifras
Recientemente, Elizabeth Campillo, analista de información y documentación del CIAT, y su colega Iván Dario Caldera presentaron su “Estudio bibliométrico de la producción científica del Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, CIAT, en los últimos cinco años”. Dicho trabajo se realizó con el objetivo de aplicar indicadores bibliométricos a la producción científica durante los años 2012 y 2016, realizando el análisis a los artículos científicos publicados en revistas arbitradas por…
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Culturally embedded practices of managing banana diversity and planting material in central Uganda
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103677
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Formal seed systems aim to provide farmers with high-quality planting material that meets evolving demands and cultivation challenges. East African banana (Musa sp.) systems rely strongly on informal seed exchange. For seed system interventions to have a larger and more sustainable impact in such a context, it is…
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Fríjol ICTA Chortí, el "amigo silencioso" en Guatemala
Un frijol biofortificado aliado contra la desnutrición infantil en Guatemala.
Autoras: Adriana Varón y Stefanie Neno Aqui el texto sobre la niña que come frijoles biofortificados. La familia, etc.
Desnutrición infantil en Guatemala
En Guatemala, la desnutrición infantil sigue siendo un problema grave de salud pública; Jutiapa, en el oriente del país, tiene 36.8% de desnutrición crónica en niños y niñas entre las edades de 3 y 5 años, Jalapa y Zacapa aproximadamente el…
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CIAT in the Media
#CIATintheMedia: With smart planning, #coffee and #bees can survive #ClimateChange https://t.co/9EdGYVs5KM (Via @SmithsonianMag) pic.twitter.com/aEG3JQT04U
— CIAT (@CIAT_) 12 de septiembre de 2017
#CIATintheMedia: #Agriculture and #FoodSecurity — where are we headed in 2017? https://t.co/Qianr0D0Ux (Via @lisa_cornish @devex) pic.twitter.com/dz1MToBu95
— CIAT (@CIAT_) 12 de enero de 2017
#CIATintheMedia: To save the planet, give cows better pasture. https://t.co/tw9k0bUeZs (Via @NPR @nprDanCharles) pic.twitter.com/Wr4kyWcCpX
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Strategic Foresight: Let’s take a look at the future in CIAT...
Opinion piece by Steven Prager. As most of you know, my start at CIAT was under the banner of the Global Futures and Strategic Foresight initiative out of PIM. As things have evolved, I am now co-leading this project out of IFPRI and moving to promote foresight more broadly (and with a variety of approaches) both inside and outside of CIAT.
It’s important to point out that GFSF was substantially funded by BMGF. This was a project that was designed, from its inception, to…
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How to end the impasse in the heated sustainable agriculture debate?
Which side are you on the sustainable agriculture debate: agroecological or sustainable agricultural intensification?
Dry season rice production in drought-affected Nicaragua, made possible by the use of excess rainwater collected in reservoirs during the rainy season, and used for irrigation in the dry season. Photo by: Neil Palmer / CIAT
Or perhaps you’re in the same camp as Jonathan Mockshell, a postdoctoral agri-food economist under the CIAT…
