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Chocolate meltdown: feeling the heat
That melt-in-your-mouth chocolate egg you savored this Easter might face a different kind of meltdown in future, researchers warn in a new study. Temperatures in West Africa’s cocoa belt – supplying 70 percent of the world’s cocoa, the raw ingredient in chocolate – are going to get hotter.
Dry spells should decrease – a bit of respite for the drought-sensitive crop.…
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Cosecha de agua, un caso de éxito premiado por FONTAGRO
En la pasada cosecha, Alexis Cáceres no solo regó las siete hectáreas que tenía sembradas de fríjol y una más de maíz; su más preciado tesoro también sirvió para dos cultivos vecinos; sus dueños se quedaron esperando las lluvias.
Publicado originalmente en el sitio web de FLAR
Desde hace seis años este veterano agricultor nicaragüense decidió…
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Intensificación sostenible adaptada al clima: una estrategia empresarial para pequeños ganaderos en Centroamérica
Es temporada seca en Nicaragua, donde una de las peores sequías registradas azota a la región y las laderas pedregosas de Condega, Estelí, languidecen bajo el inclemente sol. Sin embargo, en medio del paisaje marchito de la región más difícil para la producción agropecuaria del país, la finca de Javier Loza es un oasis…
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Low-income communities need more affordable and nutritious food
A research project tackling malnutrition among vulnerable populations in Kenya and Uganda is launched in Nairobi today. The three-year initiative targeting women aged 15-49 years of reproductive age, and children aged 6−59 months, aims to develop a quick-to-cook porridge from at least four food groups, affordable for poor communities.
Poor…
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Reusing the NCBO BioPortal technology for agronomy to build AgroPortal
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/78778
Abstract
Many vocabularies and ontologies are produced to represent and annotate agronomic data. By reusing the NCBO BioPortal technology, we have already designed and implemented an advanced prototype ontology repository for the agronomy domain. We plan to turn that prototype into a real service to the community. The AgroPortal project aims at reusing the…
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AgroLAC2025, una plataforma para marcar la diferencia en América Latina y el mundo
Un centenar de participantes provenientes de la academia, centros internacionales de investigación, agencias de desarrollo, organismos regionales, sector público y privado, desde Canadá hasta Argentina, pasando por algunos países de Europa, se hicieron presentes en AgroLAC 2025 los días 30 y 31 de marzo, para empezar a dar forma a las acciones…
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Ruta para la publicación de artículos científicos: un caso exitoso del equipo de DAPA - CIAT
En el universo todo tiene un orden y en la vida, todo un método. En los proyectos se deben surtir unas etapas que son inaplazables, como en el caso de las publicaciones y más si tienen un carácter científico.
Este tipo de publicaciones requieren de tiempo y conocimientos específicos para cumplir con las exigencias de…
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GCARD3: Will we be left behind?
At this year’s Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD3), Mark Holderness, Executive Secretary of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research, closed the 5th – 8th April meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, themed: “No one left behind,” by noting: not if we go together. For the first time, science and society have come together to align national and international objectives…
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“I’m standing on the shoulders of giants” - CIAT scientist wins Hugo de Vries Award
CIAT’s Colin Khoury has received the 2016 Hugo de Vries Award for his landmark doctoral thesis on changing human diets and the importance of wild plants to global food security.
The annual award is a joint initiative of the Royal Botanical Society of the Netherlands and the Hugo de Vries Foundation. It recognises important…
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Selection of Forages for the Tropics - the SoFT Tool
More than the 70% of the total area of agricultural land in developing countries is used for livestock feeding. Worldwide, there are 3.4 billion hectares of grazing land, representing more than a quarter of world land use. Research shows that there is an increasing demand for livestock products. Thus, the need for information on forages for specific climates, soil types, farming…
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The road to publishing scientific papers: a successful case for the DAPA team at CIAT
Everything within the universe has a special order and in life everything has a method. Projects have to go through stages that cannot be postponed, as in the case of publishing, and this is even more so when they are of a scientific nature.
These types of publications need time and specific knowledge to meet the…
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New study calls for shift to pre-pregnancy nutrition, to drive down stunting in Rwandan children under two-years-old
A new scientific report calls for a shift in interventions to tackle malnutrition in children in Rwanda under the age of two. Among recommendations, authors urge renewed focus to “fast-track” pre-pregnancy nutrition. Adolescent nutrition before pregnancy, they say, has a bigger impact on stunting in children than…
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Aprendizaje continuo a través de la diversidad cultural
El pasado 19 de abril se celebró el Día de la Convivencia en la Diversidad Cultural, lo que constituye una oportunidad para examinar los retos y oportunidades que esto genera para una organización como el CIAT.
De acuerdo a la definición del diccionario de la Real Academia Española (RAE), la diversidad se refiere a la “variedad, diferencia o…
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Pathways to rural prosperity: reflections on the 2016 Science Forum
How can we engage agricultural research in order to forge new pathways for rural prosperity? This was the question that was critically debated at the Science Forum organized by the CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from April 12th – 14th.
The Forum brought together scientists both…
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Participe desde ya en la primera conferencia regional latinoamericana de servicios ecosistémicos
“Ecosistemas sanos para sociedades resilientes” es el tema escogido para la Primera Conferencia Regional de la Alianza de Servicios Ecosistémicos (Ecosystem Services Partnership-ESP) en Latinoamérica y el Caribe que tendrá lugar en la sede del CIAT en Palmira, Colombia del 18 al 21 de octubre de 2016, en el marco de la Alianza…
