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A new world map rates food sustainability for countries across the globe
A global food system sustainability study builds the first map of its kind to score the sustainability of food systems, country-by-country. The study goes beyond usual questions of productivity and nutrition, and includes economic and social variables.
Increased awareness of how human diets acerbate climate change – while failing to…
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We bid farewell to Alba Lucía Chaves
This text is about a great scientist retiring from CIAT after working as a chemist at the Agrobiodiversity Area for 28 years. Here is the part of her life story spent in this beautiful campus.
Por Sylvia Pineda| Nov 25, 2019
CHAMPIONS OF CIAT
She vibrates in her daily life and she does it as one of the most joyful representatives of her native Nariño. She graduated from high school and her high standardized-test score granted her a scholarship to study in Russia, but her…
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A plan to strengthen the agricultural sector in Colombia and help the region is underway
Jorge Mario Díaz, CEO at Agrosavia; Ruben Echeverría, Director General at CIAT; and Juan Lucas Restrepo, Director General at Bioversity International and designated Director of the Bioversity-CIAT Alliance, who signed the cooperation agreement seeking to create synergies with the strengths and complementarities of the three entities…
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Brainstorming biodiversity monitoring
Recently, CIAT led a consultation workshop to start developing a biodiversity monitoring tool that can assess the impact of private-sector investment initiatives on the conservation and restoration of natural and fragmented landscapes in the Amazon.
Consultation workshop to develop a biodiversity monitoring tool. Photos: Juliana Nogueira (Quartzo).
The workshop…
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Report of a Working Group on Forages (Second Meeting): Held in Carlow, Ireland 7-11 Oct. 1985
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105152
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Report of the ECPGR Forages Working Group meeting, second meeting, 7-11 October 1985, Carlow, Ireland
Publication year
1985
Authors
International Board for Plant Genetic Resources
United Nations Development Programme…
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Para lograr el cultivo sostenible del cacao en Colombia, hacerlo orgánico no es necesariamente la única buena respuesta
Miembros del equipo del Proyecto SLUS – Dr. Augusto Castro Núñez (segundo de izq. a der.), Jhon Jairo Hurtado (tercero de der. a izq.), Miguel Romero Sánchez (segundo de der. a izq.) y Grey Yohana Lozano (a la derecha) – hablaron con cacaoteros y un asesor técnico de Fedecacao en Caquetá y Cesar durante una visita…
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For sustainable cacao farming in Colombia, going organic is not necessarily the only good answer
Members of the SLUS Project team – Dr. Augusto Castro-Núñez (second from the left), Jhon Jairo Hurtado (third from the right), Miguel Romero Sánchez (second from the right), and Grey Yohana Lozano (rightmost) – spoke with cacao farmers and a technical advisor from Fedecacao in Caquetá and Cesar during a recent visit to the two…
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Monitoring and Evaluation of the Partnership Platform for the Amazon through Social Network Analysis
Monitoring and periodic analysis of the network of past, present, and future relationships within and outside the Partnership Platform for the Amazon (PPA) are an important component of the overall PPA learning agenda. To implement the Social Network Analysis (SNA) monitoring of the Catalyzing and Learning Platforms and Partnerships…
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CIAT and partners fight cassava diseases in Southeast Asia with new project
In Southeast Asia (SEA) cassava is both a food crop and an industrial crop. This gives the plant, which is used for its roots, the distinction of being both a key to food security and a source of income to the two million smallholder farmers who produce it across the region. At the beginning of the cassava boom of the early 1990s SEA has enjoyed the luxury…
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Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance co-winner of US$1 million Al-Sumait prize
The Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) was awarded the 2019 edition of the US$1 million Al-Sumait Prize for African Development on November 25. PABRA, which is coordinated by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), shared the award with the Africa Rice Center, said the Al Sumait Prize Board of Trustees in a statement after…
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Bridging the gap between CSA knowledge and action: Unlocking opportunities to the implementation gap
Over the years, Kenya has produced many development policies that have created an enabling environment to address poverty, food security, economic, social, and climate change issues. This puts our country among the top with robust policy and legal instruments that support national growth. In particular, recognizing the importance of…
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Multi-stakeholder Workshops for Food Systems Profiles at the A4NH Benchmark Sites along rural-urban transect in Vietnam
Following up a successful implementation of Partial Food Systems Baseline Assessment at the Vietnam Benchmark Sites in 2018 under Agriculture for Nutrition and Health program (A4NH), the food systems profile is a visualized and collaborative product led by International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in…
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An Alliance for Accelerated Change
Food system solutions at the nexus of agriculture, environment, and nutrition
Our planet – both humans and the natural world – faces four global crises of relevance to the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT): climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and the so-called triple burden of malnutrition – hunger, nutrient…
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Strengthening Partnerships for Agricultural Resilience in Africa
Morocco, 13 December 2019…The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) signed an agreement for future joint research with the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Morocco.
Going forward, the UM6P and the Alliance between Bioversity International and CIAT will work to initiate cooperation in research, education, and…
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Report of a Working Group on Barley: First meeting, 18-19 May 1983, Gatersleben, Germany
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105296
Publication year
1983
Authors
International Board for Plant Genetic Resources
Full Citation
International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (1983) Report of a Working Group on Barley. n. 31 p.
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