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El CIAT realizó el segundo taller de Terra-i en Honduras
En el mes de noviembre se llevó a cabo el “Segundo taller del sistema de monitoreo de vegetación Terra-i”, que tiene como meta detectar los cambios en la cobertura vegetal en tiempo casi real en Honduras. El taller fue realizado en Tegucigalpa y el Cajón.
El sistema Terra-i genera información especializada para el aprovechamiento sostenible, la…
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Transforming food systems under a changing climate: building consensus on action
The debate on agriculture in UN climate change negotiations is shifting from setting the agenda towards building consensus on an action plan. The Agriculture Advantage 2.0 event series at COP24 seeks to inform priorities for action.
Cross-posted from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)…
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Invasion and saturation risk of pathogens and pests based on global cropland connectivity: the case of banana, cassava, potato, sweet potato, and yam
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/69480
Publication year
2015
Authors
Hernández Nopsa, J.F.
Xing, Y.
Andrade-Piedra, J.L.
Beed, Fenton D.
Blomme, Guy
Carvajal-Yepes, Mónica
Coyne,…
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“Lo más importante será la difusión masiva de las tecnologías”: jefe de misión japonesa del proyecto SATREPS
A seis meses de la finalización del proyecto SATREPS, la misión evaluadora calificó como “muy satisfactorios”, los avances del programa de cooperación que busca fortalecer al sector arrocero en Colombia y América Latina y el Caribe.
La misión, conformada por representantes de la Agencia de…
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Understanding cassava seed networks to curb disease spread in Southeast Asia
If you have a garden, you probably buy seeds from the store, or maybe even swap some varieties with your friends or relatives. Exchanging seed can be a very simple act. But how is it accomplished when billions of plants are involved, and exchanges take place at the national or international scale? A new publication asks this question for Southeast Asian…
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How much progress are we making in land restoration? CIAT scientists evaluate this progress by looking at 154 projects in Latin America and the Caribbean
Countries have ambitious land-restoration goals, including Initiative 20x20, which aims to restore 20 million hectares in Latin America by 2020. CIAT’s Lou Verchot and colleagues are evaluating the progress in restoration across the region.
What does…
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Desarrollo de tecnologías forrajeras para el beneficio de la comunidad colombiana
Más de 250 productores han sido beneficiados por el trabajo que desarrolla el equipo de forrajes tropicales del CIAT, el grupo de investigación en nutrición agropecuaria (NUTRIFACA) de la Universidad del Cauca y la Gobernación del Cauca, en el programa de investigación sobre el “Desarrollo y uso de recursos forrajeros en sistemas sostenibles de producción bovina de carne en el departamento del Cauca”.
En las últimas décadas, la zona ganadera del…
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CLEANED training kicked off in Kigali Rwanda
A team from the Tropical Forages Program at CIAT has been working on CLEANED*, an Excel-based ex-ante tool that assesses the environmental impacts of livestock, over the past four years. The tool’s first version was published at the beginning of 2018 and can be found here. It looks at greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, soil health and economic impacts. The CLEANED tool was…
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CLEANED training take two: Kenya
The second CLEANED training occurred Nov. 21-23. Similar to the previous training in Rwanda, the participants were personnel from the livestock sectors, this time from Ethiopia and Kenya. Participants included researchers, livestock development officers and university lecturers from Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), Send a Cow Kenya, Send a Cow Ethiopia, Egerton…
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“Green manure” cover crops – why they deserve a second chance
What goes around comes around! Green manure cover crops – or GMCCs, as we affectionately call them – have some history. The idea to grow plants that protect the soil and improve its fertility dates back some two to three decades at least, if not centuries.
Authors: Rolf Sommer and Birthe Paul
GMCCs provide shading (hence the ‘cover’ in…
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Using genome diversity for the environment, livelihoods and tropical grasslands
Tropical grassland grazing by cattle provides food for millions of people, and livelihoods for huge numbers of farmers and smallholders in developing countries. Pastures and rangelands have a profound influence on the environment. As the dominant vegetation over much of the world’s land, covering areas from flood plains to high uplands, grasslands are…
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CIAT influences more than half a billion dollars of investment in rural development in Asia and Africa
Over the last six months, a team of researchers from International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)’s Sustainable Food Systems initiative has worked intensively with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to improve the impact of rural development projects in five countries in Asia and Africa. The work…
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Cattle urine’s planet-warming power can be curtailed with land restoration
When cow urine falls on degraded land, it releases far more nitrous oxide – a potent greenhouse gas – than when absorbed by healthy pasture. The findings show additional benefits of landscape restoration and conservation.
Verónica Ruiz, coautora del estudio basado en Nicaragua, lleva a cabo investigación en pasturas.
Crédito: UNAN…
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Trees for Food and Timber: are community interests in conflict with those of timber concessions in the Congo Basin?
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/70963
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Much of the Congo Basin is managed for timber from dozens of species. More than 60% also produce non-timber products, including foods. For five multiple use tree species in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Gabon (Entandrophragma cylindricum, Baillonella toxisperma, Erythrophleum suaveloens…
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El poder que tiene la orina del ganado para calentar el planeta se puede restringir con la restauración de tierras
Cuando la orina de la vaca cae en tierra degradada, libera mucho más óxido nitroso – un poderoso gas de efecto invernadero – que si la absorbieran pastos saludables. Los hallazgos muestran beneficios adicionales de la restauración y conservación de paisajes.
Verónica Ruiz, coautora del estudio basado en Nicaragua,…
