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El equipo Big Data fortalece relaciones con África
Hugo Dorado, uno de los integrantes del grupo de Big Data, viajó a África como parte del Programa Global de Intercambio de Personal en el CIAT. Para él, esta fue una oportunidad para aventurarse en el análisis de grandes volúmenes de datos para distintos proyectos en nuevas regiones.
El programa de intercambio tiene como objetivo promover la reunión de las…
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Mission: Establish thousands of resilient agricultural communities
In thirty years, the Philippines may become even more dependent on imports of rice, coffee, vegetables, and pork. This is due in part to decreased crop yields because of increased water and heat stress, increased incidence of pests and diseases, and shifts in crop production suitability, as a result of climate change. Not only that – by 2050 climate change and…
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Social dimensions of a cassava production and value-chain: Why do the poor continue with unsustainable cassava production?
The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) has been working with the University of Queensland (UQ) and national partners in Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos and Cambodia to improve the livelihoods of upland farmers engaged in the cassava value chain. Two seperate projects pull together into a program of…
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CIAT guest editor of the KM4Dev journal on 'Open research, open data, and your development organization'
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 Megan Zandstra, Simone Staiger-Rivas, Leroy Mwanzia, Abby Clobridge…
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“Why does CIAT need IP if we generate international public goods?” An update of intellectual property (IP) management at CIAT
You may have asked this question yourself and have different conceptions of IP; for some of you “IP” might conjure mainly patents, for others, it could mean copyright or other forms of formal rights protecting creations of the mind. Yet IP is much more than that. As a teaser and overarching response – we…
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By breathing new life into dormant data, we can see the future
Uber disrupted taxis; Tinder disrupted dating. It’s about time we disrupted food. Because something clearly isn’t working. If a fridge can tell me exactly when a stick of celery is about to reach its expiry date, why is agriculture – something we’ve been doing for 10,000 years – still so imprecise? Why do millions of farmers still look at the sky and pray for rain…
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Yes, efforts to reduce deforestation and build peace can take the same road
What can the countries who are currently fighting to slow down deforestation and the degradation of their forests possibly have in common? A lot! In addition to sharing negative impacts for the loss of the forest cover, the indiscriminate felling of trees, forest fires, etc., a large share of these countries are united by another drama: their population has been, or is, affected by armed conflicts and all that that represents: violence, forced displacements, illicit activities,…
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A different kind of scarecrow
At noon, a 60-year-old farmer ends his lunch and checks an app on his mobile phone. The next day, he spreads fertilizer on his crop. That’s happening in Japan. And that could be the future in Colombia and beyond, where food producers make fast, smart, and precise decisions about their farms based on real-time data.
In this case, the data come from a white and green, roughly 8…
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Descripteurs des agrumes (Citrus spp.)
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/72735
Publication year
1999
Authors
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
Full Citation
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) (1999) Descripteurs des agrumes (Citrus spp.). International Plant Genetic Resources Institute 66 p.…
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Can development and conservation go hand in hand in Colombia’s Orinoquia region?
A diverse group of environmental and private sector specialists met in Bogotá last week to discuss how to achieve sustainable development in Colombia’s Orinoquia region. Meeting participants explored possible scenarios of sustainable development that reconcile nature protection and improve human well-being. Organized by the Science for Nature and…
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¿Pueden el desarrollo y la conservación ir de la mano en la región de la Orinoquía en Colombia?
Un grupo diverso de especialistas ambientales y del sector privado se reunió en Bogotá la semana pasada para discutir la manera de lograr el desarrollo sostenible en la región de la Orinoquía en Colombia. Los participantes a la reunión exploraron posibles escenarios de desarrollo sostenible que reconciliaran la protección de la…
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Una clase diferente de espantapájaros
A mediodía, un agricultor de 60 años de edad termina su almuerzo y revisa una aplicación en su celular. Al día siguiente, esparce fertilizante en su cultivo.
Esto está sucediendo en Japón. Y podría ser el futuro en Colombia y otras partes del mundo, en donde los productores de alimentos toman decisiones rápidas, inteligentes y precisas sobre sus fincas con base…
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Bio- Aprendiz, un programa que marca la historia del CIAT
El viernes 18 de agosto se realizará en el CIAT el programa de Casa Abierta “La biotecnología en el salón de clases” del área de Agrobiodiversidad. Esta actividad se enmarca en la celebración de los cincuenta años del Centro debido a que cumple 17 años de trabajo con jóvenes de instituciones públicas de la región.
Este programa cuenta con la…
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How much carbon is stored within the transformed landscapes of the Amazon?
Within the project Sustainable Amazonian Landscapes (SAL), we are going to answer this question by using test plots to estimate the amount of carbon and vegetative biodiversity that exists under different land use scenarios present within the anthropogenically transformed Amazonian landscapes of Peru and Colombia. The fieldwork for this work began this past…
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Proyecto SATREPS, bajo la lupa de misiones evaluadoras de Japón y Colombia
El proyecto “Desarrollo y adopción de un sistema de producción de arroz con bajo uso de insumos para América Latina, a través de mejoramiento genético y tecnologías avanzadas de manejo del cultivo” llega a un momento clave de su ejecución, luego de dos años y medio de trabajo de investigación (se inició en 2014 y finalizará en 2019). Esta iniciativa,…
