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Sara Rankin, la caleña que promueve la agricultura urbana como mucho más que producción de alimentos
Sara Rankin es caleña e investigadora del equipo de Sistemas Alimentarios Sostenibles del CIAT. Esta campeona ha trabajado en la comprensión del sistema alimentario de Cali para, entre otras metas, lograr la construcción de una política pública municipal de seguridad y soberanía alimentaria que responda a las necesidades específicas de este territorio. En ese proceso, ha podido conocer una de las perlas escondidas de las iniciativas de alimentación…
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Report of a Working Group on Avena: Fourth meeting, 26-28 May 1993, Gödölö, Hungary
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105329
Publication year
1993
Authors
Frison, Emile A.
König, J.
Chittenhelm, S.
Full Citation
Frison, E.A.; Koenig, J.; Schittenhelm, S. (comps.) (1993) Report of a Working Group on Avena. n. 50 p.
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Nuestras acciones son nuestro futuro
En su blog para el Día Mundial de la Alimentación, Juan Lucas Restrepo, Director General de Bioversity International y Director Ejecutivo-Designado de la Alianza de Bioversity International y el CIAT, explica por qué el pensamiento sistémico es clave para brindar soluciones al sistema alimentario y presenta una nueva estrategia para lograr un cambio acelerado en el nexo de la alimentación, la…
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Our Actions are our future
In his World Food Day blog, Juan Lucas Restrepo, Director General of Bioversity International and CEO-Designate of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, explains why systems thinking is key to fixing the food system and introduces a new strategy for accelerated change at the nexus of food, agriculture, health and the environment.
This week, the Committee on World…
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To improve nutrition for the poorest consumers, try a market-based approach
Uganda’s newest health food craze began in the slums of Kampala. It started when a handful of women tried an unusual porridge, which is made from five grains grown in nearby hillsides, instead of their normal porridge, which is typically made from a single main ingredient like maize. Soon they began selling the new product door-to-door. Nutreal Limited, the…
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Sara Rankin, the researcher from Cali who promotes urban agriculture as more than just producing food
Sara Rankin was born in Cali and she is a researcher from the Sustainable Food Systems team at CIAT. This Champion has worked towards understanding the food system in Cali to develop a municipal public policy on food safety and sovereignty that meets the specific needs of this territory, among other goals. In this process, she has been able to meet one of the hidden pearls of the food initiatives in Cali: urban orchards, which are increasingly popular.…
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La inteligencia artificial y los conocimientos de los agricultores ayudan a incrementar los rendimientos del maíz
La agricultura basada en datos puede incrementar la producción de los pequeños agricultores, amenazada por el cambio climático, pero es necesario que los científicos de datos trabajen con agricultores y gobiernos. Cuatro años de colaboración en maizales colombianos demuestran lo que es el éxito…
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Artificial intelligence and farmer knowledge boost smallholder maize yields
Data-driven agriculture can boost smallholder production threatened by variable weather and climate change, but scientists need to work with farmers and governments. A decade of data collection and collaboration in Colombia shows what success looks like.
Farmers in Colombia’s northern maize-growing region of Córdoba had seen it…
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Sharing new approaches to bring together gender, youth, nutrition and climate
Emerging evidence show that interventions that can fully integrate multiple disciplines have greater potential to transform rural communities. However, in practice, issues related to youth, nutrition, gender and climate are often addressed separately. This affects the capability of our projects to fully meet their objectives and generate the desired…
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Ugandans and Kenyans in cities happy to pay for food that is more nutritious
Malnutrition remains a serious problem for many people in East Africa. Poor consumers are willing to pay a premium for healthier foods, pointing to a new strategy for improving nutrition at a large scale.
Ugandans and Kenyans in poor urban households are willing to pay a premium for more nutritious flour, new research shows. The…
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Citadinos ugandeses y kenianos, felices de pagar por alimentos más nutritivos
La desnutrición sigue siendo un problema grave para muchas personas en África oriental. Los consumidores en situación de pobreza están dispuestos a pagar un suplemento de precio por alimentos más sanos, lo cual indica una nueva estrategia para mejorar la nutrición a gran escala.
Ugandeses y kenianos de hogares pobres de las…
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Para mejorar la nutrición de los consumidores más pobres, hay que intentar con un enfoque de mercado
Las dietas deficientes constituyen la norma y segmentos de la población padecen ya sea de sobrepeso, desnutrición o deficiencia de nutrientes esenciales. A veces, en los hogares se presentan combinaciones de los tres. La dieta de la mayoría de vecinos está conformada por alimentos baratos, altos en calorías, cada vez más…
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Report of a Working Group on Sunflower (fourth meeting): held at the Facoltà di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy, 11-12 May 1991
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105155
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Report of the ECPGR Sunflower Working Group meeting, fourth meeting, 11-12 May 1991, Perugia, Italy
Publication year
1992
Authors
International Board for Plant Genetic Resources
European…
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The Champion who created an App to identify banana diseases
Sylvia Pineda
Michael Selvaraj is the leader of the Phenomics Platform team from the Agrobiodiversity Area at CIAT. He is a Champion, because he developed the smartphone App Tumaini, which makes it possible to identify five diseases and one pest affecting banana plants.
CHAMPIONS OF CIAT…
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Agriculture AI Brain
IDB Lab, CIAT and SoftBank partner to promote smart rice farming in Colombia.
The Inter-American Development Bank, through its innovation lab – IDB Lab, approved US$2 million funding for a project that will improve the productivity and sustainability of rice farming in Colombia.
The project, led by the International Center for Tropical…
