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Data and Information Management Plan 2015 – 2016
Since the arrival of Leroy Mwanzia as Data and Information Manager at CIAT, the team has been working on an action plan for 2015. The visit of Luz Marina Alvare from IFPRI helped a great deal in identifying our priorities. We now have set ourselves concrete objectives which are part of CIAT’s Business Plan related to the publishing of post print manuscripts, and primary data and…
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The Ford Foundation and CIAT
From inception to impact Concerned about growing food needs, Dr. Lowell S. Hardin of the Ford Foundation and Dr. Lewis M. Roberts of the Rockefeller Foundation proposed in 1966 the establishment of an international agricultural research center to be headquartered in Colombia.
A year later, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) was founded to strengthen the fight against poverty and hunger across Latin America and the Caribbean. Today, poverty and socio-political issues are compounded by…
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Women's hidden harvest: Indigenous vegetables and amaXhosa cultural survival in Hobeni Village, South Africa
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/97653
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This book is about the people of Hobeni Village and the protected area that neighbors them, the Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve.
For over 100 years, the communities next to the Dwesa and Cwebe Forests have been caught in a conflict over natural resources. Residents were forcibly removed for decades by colonial…
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Edgar Amézquita Collazos, su legado es fundamental para el avance de la agricultura en Colombia
Lamentamos anunciar que el Dr. Edgar Amézquita Collazos, científico de suelos del CIAT por más de 12 años, falleció el viernes 17 de junio de 2016, en Cali, Colombia.
Por el equipo de Suelos del CIAT, liderado por el Dr. Louis Verchot.
El Dr. Amézquita fue una persona de profunda calidad humana y gran calidad…
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Dr Edgar Amézquita Collazos: His legacy is fundamental to the advance of agriculture in Colombia
We regretfully announce that Dr Edgar Amézquita Collazos, CIAT Soil Scientist, passed away on Friday, 17 June 2016, in Cali.
By the Soils team of CIAT, led by Dr. Louis Verchot.
Dr Amézquita was not only a profoundly human person, but he was also an outstanding scientist, working indefatigably in the field of…
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Climate projections on Colombia’s Eastern Plains by 2040
For the future, rainfall deficit added to increases in temperature in months when the rainy season ends on Colombia’s Eastern Plains (September to October) could produce decreases in available water for agriculture. Photo Neil Palmer (CIAT). Colombia’s Eastern Plains.
To anticipate future climate change, we need to project how greenhouse gases…
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CATIE y el CIAT, una alianza que convence
Así lo destacó Muhammad Ibrahim, nuevo Director General del Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) durante su visita al campus del CIAT en Colombia, los días 7 y 8 de julio, para identificar áreas de investigación colaborativa conjunta “aprovechando la larga historia de cooperación que compartimos y que nos permite gozar de credibilidad. En la región saben que…
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37 years of conducting research analyses on plants and soils
For 37 years, the Plant Physiology and Nutrition Laboratory at CIAT has been in charge of chemical analyses for different projects related to forages, beans, and the soils in which they grow.
The group working in the laboratory is composed of coordinator Gonzalo Borrero and Diana Patricia Higuita, Rosa Elvira Brand, and Aracely Vidal,…
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Less talk more action, special issue: it's time to save our soils
“Let’s be frank: we are making too little progress on protecting soils in sub-Saharan Africa from physical or chemical degradation!” That’s how this new soil-focused special issue is framed by the editors.
Published by: Juliet Braslow and Rolf Sommer
Soils provide the fundamental basis for food production. They store water, deliver…
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Big data, the key for tomorrow´s agriculture
“There is no greater feeling than being at the right time at the right place to dare outline the trends of the future agriculture that we need to start strengthening as of today,” said Daniel Jiménez, CIAT’s Data and agronomy scientist, to define his experience participating in the Information and Communication Technology for Agriculture (ICTforAg 2016) Conference carried out in…
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La yuca, una raíz que une a Corpoica y al CIAT
Un total de ocho variedades de yuca serán liberadas en el departamento del Cauca, y las Regiones Caribe y de los Llanos Orientales durante el segundo semestre de 2016. Este hecho, que parece un punto de llegada, resulta ser más bien la señal de un nuevo comienzo en la estrecha colaboración entre la Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agrícola (Corpoica) y el CIAT, en la…
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Afrontamos el cambio climático con conversaciones menos científicas
Entre el 22 y 25 de mayo en República Dominicana, durante la Conferencia Mundial sobre Cacao (WCC, por sus siglas en inglés), se reunieron alrededor de 1,300 personas de los sectores público y privado de 64 países importadores y exportadores, y diferentes ONG para discutir temas como Mercados y Sostenibilidad, que inquietan al sector cacaotero en todo el mundo…
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How much do countries benefit from one another’s crop diversity?
Bananas originated in South and Southeast Asia, and are now produced throughout the world’s tropics and eaten in at least 192 countries worldwide. Quinoa came from the South American Andes, and is currently cultivated in almost 100 nations. Countries clearly depend on one another’s crop diversity. But can we measure the extent of the benefits?…
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Bancos comunitarios de semillas: concepto y practica. Manual para el facilitador
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/96304
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Over three decades, a number of international and national organizations have provided technical and financial support to community seed banks around the world. Only a few of these organizations have developed and published a practical guide about how they have offered this support. This handbook fills the gap and advances research and…
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Equipo Terra-I, talento científico para un mundo más verde
El equipo Terra-i, perteneciente al área de Análisis de Políticas del CIAT (DAPA por sus siglas en inglés), está en constante evolución y este año su principal reto está en procesar una mayor cantidad de datos en menos tiempo del que emplean actualmente.
“Para lograr este reto compramos más máquinas de procesamiento de…
