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Peter Wenzl
Leader, Genetic Resources Program
Peter manages the Future Seeds genebank in Colombia which conserves global collections of beans, cassava and tropical forages. He joined the Alliance in 2016 coming from the Global Crop Diversity Trust where he contributed to coordinating the DivSeek initiative to harness crop diversity using genomics.
He had previously led the Seeds of Discovery project at CIMMYT to systematically identify and mobilize useful genetic variation from the global maize and wheat…
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Oscar Estrada Vargas
Senior Research Associate
Oscar is a Senior Research Associate in the Digital Inclusion lever at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT. He is an agronomist engineer from the National University of Colombia, a technologist in electronics from the University of Quindío, and holds a Master’s degree in Data Science from ICESI University.
He works as a data scientist on projects across Latin America, specializing in data-driven crop modeling and digital agriculture, applying…
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Tatiana Rivera
Senior Research Associate
Tatiana Rivera is an Economist and Project Manager at the Performance, Innovation, and Strategic Analysis for Impact (PISA4Impact) program of the Alliance Bioversity-CIAT. Based in Colombia, she specializes in impact assessment (ex-ante and ex-post), socio-economic analysis, and market intelligence. Her recent work includes living wage studies aimed at enhancing economic sustainability in agricultural value chains. Through her research, she provides critical insights to…
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Maritza Cuervo Ibanez
Coordinator Germplasm Health Laboratory
Agricultural engineer, specializing in Biotechnology and master's degree in plant genetic resources. 34 years of experience in the alliance. I worked in the virology unit and for 17 years I have been the head of CIAT's germplasm health unit. I have experience in the standardization and implementation of serological, biological, biochemical and molecular detection methodologies for plant pathogens. I certify the phytosanitary quality of all the…
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Berta Ortiz Crespo
User Experience Design Specialist
Berta is a user experience and human-centered design specialist, with a strong focus on digital tools for agriculture. She has extensive experience working closely with end-users, including farmers, extension agents, public and private institutions. Her goal is to understand and recognize the importance of the users’ contexts and needs to develop successful tools. Berta has been directly involved in developing new digital tools and improving existing ones, with…
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Michael Peters
Emeritus Scientists
Dr. Michael Peters worked for 40 years on Tropical Forages and their integration into Livestock-Crop-Tree Systems. Since 1988 with the CGIAR, first with ILRI (starting as ILCA) and since from 1998 to 2025 with the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT Intl. (starting as CIAT). Michael has working experience in Latin America and the Caribbean, in West, Eastern, and Southern Africa and in a coordinating function in Southeast Asia. His research focuses on the development of tropical…
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Stephanie Jaquet
Project leader
Stephanie Jaquet is an interdisciplinary scientist and project leader in the Climate Action team. She is based in the country office of Senegal in Dakar. She works on several aspects linked to climate smart agriculture and adaptation to climate change. Her work focuses on West Africa and on investment, adaptation, policy and climate security. Previously to this assignment, she worked at the University of Bern (Switzerland) based in Laos on several projects related to agriculture,…
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Emmanuel Mwema
Research Associate
I am an environmental professional with diverse research & modelling skills in the nexus of agriculture and the environment. As a forage, my objective is to help the Alliance to contribute towards equitable, nutritious and sustainable food production systems. Together with the Forages Team, we aim to transition the livestock farming systems of this world to be less emissive by introducing forage varieties that adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change. It doesn't…
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Gracsious Maviza
Scientist I, Country Representative for South Africa
Gracsious Maviza is a Gender and Migration Climate Security Scientist and the CGIAR Climate Security Regional Lead for the Southern Africa Team at the Alliance of Bioversity Internation and CIAT under the Climate Action Lever. She also serves as the Alliance Country Representative for South Africa, representing the Alliance’s strategic interests and partnerships within the country…
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Jhon Jairo Hurtado
Senior Research Associate, Food Environment and Consumer Behavior (FECB).
He is a professional in Industrial Engineering, teacher of entrepreneurship and innovation.
More than 20 years of professional experience in research for development in Latin America and the Caribbean, in value chains, inclusive business models, social inclusion, knowledge management, systematization and multi-stakeholder learning platforms. He is also co-author of participatory guides for the design of inclusive…
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Aura Bravo
Research Associate, Crops for Nutrition and Health – Forages Tropical Program
Aura is a Research Associate at the Alliance based in Cali, Colombia. She has experience working on development value chains and business models of agricultural and livestock production systems, combining with different approaches.
She has followed qualitative and quantitative research methods, aligned with her disciplinary degree (Economics). This has allowed her critically scrutinizing and developing interdisciplinary…
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Economics of agricultural adaptation to climate change: tools for informed decision-making
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/41627
Publication year
2011
Authors
Sova, Chase
Full Citation
Sova C. 2010. Economics of agricultural adaptation to climate change: tools for informed decision-making. CIAT Policy Brief 5. Cali, Colombia: International…
