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Science in fragile settings: Reimagining the Alliance’s support in fragile and crisis contexts
Grazia Pacillo
Ibukun Taiwo
As conflict and climate shocks reshape food, land, and water, leaders from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT met at their annual Science Week to rethink how science can better serve fragile and crisis-affected regions…
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Enabling structured grain trade in Kenya: Lessons from Uasin Gishu County
Kiogora Joseline Kanja
Chris Mwangi Ngige, Benson Kenduiywo
In Uasin Gishu County, Kenya, smallholder farmers, cooperatives, and agriGHALA are transforming grain trade through structured systems, improving storage, finance, and market access to reduce losses and increase incomes…
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Alliance evidence backs call to protect 90 million people on the frontlines of the climate crisis
Marianne Gadeberg
Alliance research underpins UNHCR’s COP29 report showing 90M displaced face severe climate risks. The report urges leaders to protect vulnerable people, fund resilience, and cut emissions to curb future displacement.
More than 90 million…
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Hearing the heart of the Ivorian cocoa value chain: Voices from the ground
Angie L. Sánchez, George Amahnui , Maria Eliza Villarino
The room was already buzzing before the discussions began. Farmers greeted cooperative leaders with familiar handshakes. Exporters set down their notebooks. Representatives from public institutions, civil society groups and development agencies settled into small clusters…
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‘We walk farther each day’: The human cost of pastoralist drought and resource strain
Anastacia Wanjiru, Sintayehu Alemayehu
If drought was forecast, why did the crisis still unfold? Tracking 2025-2026 conditions across pastoral borderlands, digital early warning systems reveal how climate shocks outpaced response.
For pastoralists in southern Ethiopia,…
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Turning the feed crisis into an opportunity: How improved forages can transform livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa
Stefan Burkart
Livestock are at the heart of rural livelihoods across sub-Saharan Africa. From pastoral systems in drylands to mixed crop–livestock farms in high-potential areas, cattle, sheep, and goats provide food, income, traction, manure, and social security for millions of households.…
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Give entrepreneurs what they need, watch businesses soar
Mercy Phiri , Emily Nkhambule
In May 2025 in Malawi, Mercy Phiri joined the Business Acceleration for Youth project expecting entrepreneurs to chase grants. Instead, working with 61 MSMEs, she discovered they were not lacking ambition, but systems and scale…
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Support indigenous food system biocultural diversity
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance (Bioversity-CIAT Alliance)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110392
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The Comment by Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo and colleagues1 was timely in emphasising the challenges faced by Indigenous peoples due to the combined effects of climate change, COVID-19, and longstanding inequities. Although pressure on Indigenous livelihoods is nothing new, current effects are extreme, both in terms of deaths due to the virus and disruptions to lifeways,…
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The urgent need for integrated science to fight COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance (Bioversity-CIAT Alliance)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108443
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The COVID-19 pandemic has become the leading societal concern. The pandemic has shown that the public health concern is not only a medical problem, but also affects society as a whole; so, it has also become the leading scientific concern. We discuss in this treatise the importance of bringing the world’s scientists together to find effective…
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Introgression of a functional epigenetic OsSPL14WFP allele into elite indica rice genomes greatly improved panicle traits and grain yield
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/91961
Abstract
Rice yield potential has been stagnant since the Green Revolution in the late 1960s, especially in tropical rice cultivars. We evaluated the effect of two major genes that regulate grain number, Gn1a/OsCKX2 and IPA1/WFP/OsSPL14, in elite indica cultivar backgrounds. The yield-…
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Local partial least squares based on global PLS scores
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100718
Abstract
A local‐based method for near‐infrared spectroscopy predictions, the local partial least squares regression on global PLS scores (LPLS‐S), is proposed in this work and compared with the usual local PLS (LPLS) regression approach. LPLS‐S is based on the idea of replacing the original spectra with a global PLS score matrix before using the usual LPLS. This is done…
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Sequencing analysis of 20,000 full-length cDNA clones from cassava reveals lineage specific expansions in gene families related to stress response
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44088
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Background
Cassava, an allotetraploid known for its remarkable tolerance to abiotic stresses is an important source of energy for humans and animals and a raw material for many industrial processes. A full-length cDNA library of cassava plants under normal, heat, drought,…
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Improving African bean productivity in a changing global environment
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance (Bioversity-CIAT Alliance)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/107022
Publication year
2020
Authors
Taba-Morales, Gebel
Hyman, Glenn G.
Rubiano Mejía, Jorge Eliécer
Castro-Llanos, Fabio Alexander
Beebe, Stephen E.
Rubyogo, Jean-Claude
Katungi, Enid M.
Buruchara, Robin Arani…
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Analysis of effectiveness of three forest interventionist techniques and proposal of a new and integrated model of forest restoration
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/67785
Publication year
2015
Authors
Castelli, Karen Regina
Barreto, Mariana Gregorio
Francesconi, Wendy
Dalla Valle, Leandro
Mondelli, Giulliana
Abilio, Fernanda Maria…
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Targeting management practices for rice yield gains in stress-prone environments of Myanmar
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105520
Publication year
2019
Authors
Radanielson, Ando M.
Kato, Yoichiro
Palao, Leo K.
Feyisa, Gudina
Malabayabas, Arelene Julia
Aunario, Jorrel K.
García, Cornelia
Balanza, Jane Girly C…
