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Bienestar, clave en el desempeño del colaborador
Hoy en día las organizaciones se preocupan por crear programas de bienestar laboral, con el objetivo de mejorar la calidad de vida de los trabajadores, promover la integración entre ellos y fortalecer un buen ambiente laboral.
Estos programas con frecuencia se extienden al núcleo familiar, pues en la medida que su entorno se sienta a gusto e involucrado con la organización, se afianza el sentido de pertenencia para con esta.
En centros de investigación como el CIAT, el área de Gestión…
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Genome editing: As easy, useful and safe as it sounds?
Helping experts in crop biotechnology explain their work to non-specialists is a tough job – one to which I’ve dedicated a lot of time as a science writer/editor over the last 20 years. One rhetorical device that I’ve always found handy for getting my mind around biotechnology’s abstractions is the apt metaphor – like the image of a “pipeline” to depict how massive amounts of…
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Edición de genomas: ¿Tan fácil, útil y seguro como suena?
Ayudar a expertos en biotecnología de cultivos a explicar su trabajo a gente que no es especialista no es una tarea fácil – y una a la que he dedicado bastante tiempo como escritor/editor científico durante los últimos 20 años. Una figura retórica que siempre he encontrado de ayuda para entender un poco las abstracciones de la biotecnología es una buena metáfora – como la…
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Burundi: Breaking down barriers for beans
As part of our contribution to the United Nations’ International Year of Pulses, we’re starting a blog series called “Bean-Growing Country of the Month.” This first article focuses on a country that is rebuilding its bean research programme with assistance from the CIAT-supported Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance.
Earlier this year, the Center received funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) for a project titled ‘Improving food security, nutrition, incomes,…
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Beans and Other Paragons of Dietary Virtue
When the United Nations (UN) General Assembly designates an issue to be the focus of an international year, this is usually a tacit admission that people around the world tend to take the issue for granted, even though they shouldn’t.
The International Year of Pulses (IYP 2016) – which is being formally launched on 10 November at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in Rome – is no exception. Despite pulses’ nutritional and other virtues, and their…
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Alimentación, salud y medio ambiente, los temas de EATxCali
Expertos investigadores internacionales, representantes del gobierno colombiano, sociedad civil, sector privado y organismos regionales de América Latina, se reunieron el 30 de octubre en el CIAT para compartir perspectivas sobre alimentación, salud y medio ambiente.
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Graphic recording at CIAT’s internal ICT4D conference
The first time I saw graphic facilitation in-action was at a KM4Dev workshop in Seattle, Washington. While participants worked through a series of large and small group sessions, facilitator Nancy White captured major themes, questions, and ideas on a large poster affixed to the back wall. Big font, thick markers, icons, swirls, chalk, and thought bubbles, it was the coolest…
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Quick and “dirty” insights from the internal CIAT conference on ICT4D
The path to progress for ICT4D at CIAT: some insights to help shape the way forward Before CIAT’s KM group engages in a deeper documentation and reflection on the experiences that were shared during CIAT’s internal conference on ICT4D, I decided to write this preliminary summary of my takeaways.
The internal call for proposals resulted in the submission of 15 abstracts which were combined into 4 thematic sessions. Many thanks to Sophie Treinen, Knowledge…
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Culturally grounded indicators of resilience in social-ecological systems
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/89209
Publication year
2017
Authors
Sterling, E.
Ticktin, T.
Te Kipa Kepa Morgan
Cullman, G.
Alvira, D.
Andrade, P.
Bergamini, N.
Betley, E.
Burrows, K.
Caillon, S…
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Soil Organic Carbon and the 4‰ Initiative: Soils for food security and climate
2015 has been an exciting year for those of us engaged in research to support sustainable development of agriculture in the tropics. The Sustainable Development Goals have been adopted, and incorporate goals for society, agriculture, and ecosystems, including the agendas of the three Rio Conventions, the United Nations Convention to Combat…
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Pathways for restoring soils: Strengthening local capacities in Nicaragua
Two initiatives undertaken with partners are beginning to make a difference in fostering more productive use of soils and contributing to restoring soils in smallholder farming in Nicaragua. “These are motivating examples of what we can achieve if we work together with local partners on strengthening capacities,” explains Pablo Siles, CIAT scientist in the Soils research area.
Strengthening knowledge of soils and identifying interventions As part of the CGIAR’s…
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Giving soils a voice
We don’t directly drink or breathe soil, so it’s often forgotten as we trample over it. Raising awareness and inspiring action for promoting and protecting our soils has been a central focus throughout this International Year of Soils (IYS). We need healthy soils for a healthy life because the bottom line is that no soil = no food.
We are nearing the end of this year of soils and are…
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Los gremios en el centro de la gestión de conocimiento en el Convenio "Clima y Sector Agropecuario Colombiano"
Empoderamiento de los técnicos, seguimiento y evaluación del fortalecimiento de sus capacidades y comunicación conjunta son los tres enfoques principales. Aprovechando del informe trimestrial que finalizamos para el Ministerio de Agricultura y de Desarrollo Rural (MADR) de Colombia, compartimos conclusiones…
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Resumen de los estudios del Convenio MADR-CORPOICA-CIAT- en el tema de acumulación de carbono en los Llanos Orientales de Colombia
CIAT y CORPOICA están siguiendo su colaboración en el tema de la acumulación de carbono en el suelo y la reducción de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en los Llanos. En la próxima fase de la investigación Mayesse Da Silva, Glenn Hyman, Idupulapati Rao, Jacobo Arango y Ngonidzashe Chirinda de CIAT, y Otoniel Perez, Miguel Arango, Jaime Bernal y Nubia Rodriguez de CORPOICA estarán liderando esfuerzos para entender los…
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Announcing a new Value Chains for Nutrition project for 2016-2018
We are pleased to announce that BMZ (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development) has decided to support a brand new Linking Farmers to Markets project, namely: ‘Making Value Chains Work for Food and Nutrition Security of Vulnerable Populations in East Africa’.
This three-year project will use a holistic approach for…
