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¿Deberíamos comer menos carne? El debate está servido
Recientemente en el CIAT se inició una serie de debates internos acerca de temas estratégicos. Esta actividad denominada CIATtalks se centra en asuntos de importancia, no solo para el Centro, sino para las comunidades de los países en los que el CIAT desarrolla sus proyectos de investigación.
Así, en el marco de los CIATtalks, la semana pasada se…
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DAPA-Linking Farmers to Market’s article wins an award from Banco de la República
CIAT’s Linking Farmers to Market’s (LFM) article, written by Rafael Isidro Parra-Peña (LFM-CIAT), Mark Lundy (LFM-CIAT) and Barry Reilly (U. of Sussex), has received an award from the Banco de la República.
Therefore, their research paper will be published in a book: “El desarrollo equitativo, competitivo y sostenible…
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Could "magic beans" help ease Malawi's maize woes?
Whichever way you drive into or out of Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, maize is everywhere. It flanks the roadsides for miles and miles; huge, undulating expanses disappear into the distance. You’d be forgiven for thinking the country was preparing for a bumper harvest.
But you’d be wrong. This is actually what massive crop failure looks…
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Corpoica y el CIAT, tejiendo lazos para mayor cooperación
A principios de este año, Corpoica y el CIAT acordaron iniciar un programa de inducción con el propósito de que un grupo de sus investigadores socialicen los avances de investigación de ambas organizaciones y creen nexos para fortalecer la investigación conjunta actual y facilitar la colaboración futura.
Los investigadores, provenientes de…
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Beans without borders, by Clare Mukankusi
“The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a free trade area for 20 countries, which has allowed us to significantly speed up the release of new beans”
#CIATforward
Visions of a sustainable food future
Clare Mukankusi, plant breeder
Beans without borders
My dream has always been to reach the poorest in Africa though science. And now, as a “doctor of plants,” as my children call me, I help regulate the flow of…
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Kenya's drought masks a deeper problem with livestock feed
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 to bite into in future.
By Dr. An Notenbaert: Tropical Forages Coordinator, Africa…
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The disruption starts now: new big data program promises to shake up agriculture
A new multimillion-dollar initiative plans to disrupt food production across the developing world, with the aim of making it more productive, efficient and resilient – all through the power of information.
The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture is jointly led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT…
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Nitrogen-efficient crops on the horizon: Can we grow more with fewer emissions?
Through a natural, affordable alternative to farmers’ heavy use of nitrogen fertilizers, science now offers an option to boost crop productivity and dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to the authors of a report that will appear this week in the journal Plant Science.
The new study describes certain plants that…
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Arturo Franco, the data “Magio”
The creative writers of the famous TV show “The Simpsons” are ever on the alert for an interesting story about current traditions or themes and that is why they prepared a chapter featuring the parody of a secret society in Springfield called the Stonecutters (known in Spanish as the “Magios”), identified as a group of free-thinking men who carry out activities anonymously, and whose doctrine is…
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Una oportunidad para que Cali coma mejor
En la rapitienda Los Toños 2, en el barrio Siloé, al oeste de Cali, Juan Antonio Gómez ofrece a los vecinos verduras, hortalizas y todas las frutas frescas propias del trópico. En una de las zonas más deprimidas de la ciudad, el 40% de las familias que llegan a esta tienda compran al día y lo que esté más barato. Llevan lo que les alcance con $3.000 o $4.000. Otras familias optan por compras semanales, que no superan los $15.000.
El propietario de esta concurrida tienda barrial surte el…
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La bioeconomía: motor de desarrollo integral para Colombia
Con una nutrida participación de representantes del sector agrícola, académico, privado, investigativo y estatal, se llevó a cabo en Bogotá el pasado 27 de abril, el Foro Nacional de Bioeconomía, Innovación territorial sostenible, organizado por el Centro Francés de Cooperación Internacional en Investigación Agrícola para el Desarrollo, (CIRAD), el Centro Internacional de…
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¿Qué papel puede jugar el cacao para la paz en Colombia?
En medio de las diez cuadras que conforman Remolinos del Caguán, en el río Caguán que lo bordea y en la selva amazónica que lo cobija, el legado del padre Jacinto Franzoi sigue intacto: no a la coca, sí al cacao.
En este lejano corregimiento de Cartagena del Chairá, en el departamento del Caquetá, de no más de 500 habitantes, y tristemente…
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What is the place of ‘resilience’ in the New Urban Agenda?
The New Urban Agenda adopted by the UN General Assembly on 23 December 2016 is centered on sustainability and equity. The vision of the declaration is one of ‘cities for all, referring to the equal use and enjoyment of cities and human settlements, seeking to promote inclusivity (…) [and] where all persons are able to enjoy equal rights and opportunities’.
By: …
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Good NEWS for the Fight Against Malnutrition
Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Power a Nutrition Early Warning System (NEWS) for Africa
Since at least the 1970s, food crises have seemed to strike sub-Saharan Africa with depressing frequency
They often require complex and costly international responses and can produce a sense of hopelessness that this region is somehow fated to suffer an endless cycle of food-related disasters, leaving millions of people facing chronic malnutrition and death.
Yet it’s…
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Report of a Working Group on Brassica: Extraordinary meeting, held jointly with the third coordination meeting of the GEN RES CT99 109-112, 8-9 February 2002, Vila Real, Portugal
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105241
Publication year
2003
Authors
Maggioni, L.
Thomas, G.
Lipman, E.
European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources
International…
