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Medios sociales, aliados para comunicar la ciencia
“La mayoría de las ideas fundamentales de la ciencia son esencialmente simples, y pueden, como regla general, ser expresadas en un lenguaje que es comprensible para todos”. Albert Einstein
Podría decirse que años atrás, la dinámica de la ciencia en cualquiera de sus campos era unidireccional, pues la información se originaba desde los investigadores y era…
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Una inmersión en la evaluación de impacto para definir prioridades de investigación agrícola
Del 20 al 22 de Abril de 2016, se reunieron en el Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP) unos cincuenta tomadores de decisiones de institutos de investigación y desarrollo agrícolas de Latinoamérica, economistas agrícolas e investigadores de ciencias sociales, todos con un común objetivo: aprender y compartir sobre…
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Context, conflict and climate change
The area of Nwoya district, Northern Uganda, was wracked by civil war for two decades. Today, the area is highly vulnerable to climate change, as farmers rely on low-productivity subsistence crops such as sesame, sorghum or beans. Increasing the resilience of communities and their food security – while also mitigating climate change – remains a challenge.
By Wendy Okolo, and Kelvin Shikuku…
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Co-operative leadership in Uganda
The CIAT Uganda team just concluded a “Cooperative Leadership Event” in Kampala-Kawanda, Uganda. The event, which took place between the 3rd and 6th of May, was the largest gathering of agricultural cooperatives and farmer organizations in Uganda.
In attendance were 102 leaders and managers of 102 agricultural cooperatives and farmer organizations from all over the country.…
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La academia y el CIAT, de la mano por una Amazonia sostenible
La identificación y estudio de los sistemas de producción sostenibles corresponde a uno de los pilares fundamentales en la conservación y el desarrollo científico y tecnológico de la región. Para el proyecto Paisajes Sostenibles para la Amazonía (SAL), es clave continuar avanzando a partir del conocimiento ya generado por la academia e investigadores locales,…
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Strengthening traditional markets benefits small producers and poor consumers
This week CIAT’s Linking Farmers to Markets team published a new policy brief on Traditional Markets for Poverty Reduction and Food Security: Exploring Policy Options in Honduras and Nicaragua.
By Irene van Loosen
The project, funded by the Ford Foundation, was implemented by CIAT and its partners Swisscontact and…
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Descriptores para quinua (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) y sus parientes silvestres
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/72610
Abstract
La lista de descriptores para quinua (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) y sus parientes silvestres es una revisión de la publicación original del CIRF (actualmente Bioversity International), titulada “Descriptores de quinua” (AGP:IBPGR/81/104). Esta revisión, se amplió para acomodar los parientes silvestres, y es el resultado de una colaboración…
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Firmado nuevo convenio Corpoica-CIAT para el desarrollo del agro colombiano
Este nuevo acuerdo, que va del año 2016 hasta 2018, cuenta con una agenda de trabajo que se enfoca en el desarrollo de variedades de arroz para la Alta Orinoquia, ganadería sostenible para el caribe colombiano y cambio climático. Esto sin perder de vista temas transversales como evaluación de impacto, monitoreo y seguimiento, y gestión del conocimiento…
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Más inversión en investigación agrícola, clave para que América Latina sea una despensa mundial
Investigación Agropecuaria en América Latina y el Caribe: Un Análisis de Instituciones, Inversión y Capacidades entre países es el nombre del informe que acaba de publicar el programa de Indicadores de Ciencia y Tecnología Agropecuaria (ASTI, por sus siglas en inglés), gracias al apoyo del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y el…
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Iron beans from the garden to the plate
Farmers from Burera District and United States Agency for International Development (USAID), teams from Rwanda and United States of America have enjoyed iron beans field tour and meals on 13th of May 2016 in Cyanika Sector of Burera District in Northern Province in Rwanda.
By: Laetitia Umulisa
In collaboration with HarvestPlus, RAB and local leaders, farmers…
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Paris climate agreement cannot be met without emissions reduction target for agriculture, new study suggests
Scientists have calculated, for the first time, the extent to which agricultural emissions must be reduced to limit warming to 2°C in 2100. And, they propose a 1 gigatonne annual reduction target by 2030 for farming, arguing that current interventions to reduce emissions in agriculture could only achieve 21-40% of this goal…
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National Stakeholder Workshop in Kenya: Country Climate Change Risk Profiles
CIAT organized National Stakeholder Workshop on Country Climate Change Risk Profiles, Kenya. This is part of CIATs support to the Ministry of Agriculture.
The meeting was attended by 60 representatives from Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), Kenya…
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Farmers become editors: what next?
We’ve found that participatory videos are a powerful way to include marginalized voices in development discourse. But we know what you’re thinking. What happens next?
When we started out, our aim was to include farmers’ voices in land and soil management-related issues. After all, they are the ones that to do the work. You can read about the process here.
But after we…
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Water harvesting: CIAT-FLAR project receives high honor
A joint CIAT-FLAR initiative that has allowed farmers in Nicaragua to grow a bumper crop during dry seasons has been recognized for its exceptional innovation.
The water harvesting project allows farmers to capture and store rainwater for use during the dry season, was among the five projects declared winners of the contest organized by FONTAGRO – an…
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"This is not just about assets": New insights into social determinants of resilience
Resilience has been increasingly recognized as a powerful concept to help practitioners, academics and policy-makers better understand the links between shocks, response and longer-term development outcomes. Incorporating resilience alongside vulnerability analysis can contribute an essential element to societal ability to better prepare…
