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Partnerships for solutions: Assessing COVID’s Impacts on Poor Urban Consumers in Africa
Alliance researchers in Nairobi, Kenya, report on a joint study establishing the effects of COVID-19 on residents’ livelihoods and food access.
With COVID-19 disrupting food systems worldwide, the negative implications for food and nutrition security are rising daily. Vulnerable poor in urban areas are likely to feel more…
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Post-COVID-19: we need a food systems approach to achieve zero-deforestation diets
How and what we eat has caused undue damage to forests. Over the years, the clamor for a shift to sustainable diets has grown. Finding an effective approach toward that end has remained elusive, though. A drastic change in our food systems in needed, if we are to avoid another COVID-19-like crisis.
The COVID-19 pandemic…
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Protecting income-generating cassava from virus duo
While the world worries about the global impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, smallholder cassava farmers in South-East Asia are being affected by other diseases with significant impacts on livelihoods.
Cassava witches’ broom disease (CWBD), which can cause yield reductions of up to 90%, and the more recent cassava mosaic disease (CMD), which can slash…
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Food Safety for All by All
Reflecting on World Food Safety Day 2020's theme "Food safety, everybody's business", Mercy Lungaho explains its importance within Kenyan food systems.
As a food scientist and human nutritionist at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, I strongly believe that in these precarious times of COVID-19, we have to focus on improving our food system so that…
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An essential sustainable farming practice faces one big limitation: land to produce seeds
Because of their environmental benefits, cover crops like clover and rye are increasingly popular on U.S. farms. Increasing their use will require research and investment but researchers say the benefits far outweigh the costs.
As farmers across the globe look to grow food more sustainably – with less water, fertilizer,…
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Dairy farming transforms farmers’ livelihoods
On World Milk Day, we discuss how an initiative led by the Alliance is providing training and new technology to improve milk yields in Meru County, Kenya.
“I had a bad experience when I ordered some grass seeds that were being advertised on Facebook. What I got was a mix of Mulato and some unidentified variety that did not do well at all on my plot.…
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COVID-19 makes a strong case for urban farming
In Eastern Africa, supporting urban and peri-urban farming would help respond to the devastating effects of COVID-19.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019, the disease has spread across the globe, infecting over four million people and claiming more than 300,000 lives.
Although loss of human life is the most devastating of all,…
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Cadmium in Peruvian cacao: Framing the problem and investigating solutions
Our researchers are working to understand mitigation of the toxic element cadmium in Latin American cacao.
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Nepali community seedbanks join forces to conserve agrobiodiversity
On the International Day for Biological Diversity, we celebrate community seedbanks that maintain and harness Nepal’s rich agricultural biodiversity for human health and well-being.
"As the global community is called to re-examine its relationship to the natural world, one thing is certain: despite all our technological advances we are…
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Root and tuber crops in Guadeloupe
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82274
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The main root crops grown in Guadeloupe and their annual production rates are indicated. Very few areas of the island are planted to cassava; this root crop is grown in mixed cropping systems (aroids/cassava/cocoa/coffee, aroids/sweet potato/cassava, or cassava/sweet potato) or in monoculture in the north of Grande- Terre, in Marie-Galante, and over the Capesterre-Belle-Eau area of…
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Actividades de germoplama de frijol. Unidad de Biotecnología
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82185
Abstract
In 1985, the activities of the Biotechnology Research Unit (CIAT) involved research in cell and tissue culture for clonal propagation and for the generation of useful variability. These activities included work carried out at CIAT and at collaborating institutions abroad. Work at CIAT concentrated on research to develop tissue culture applications with CIAT…
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Capacitación científica y actividades de la red. Africa
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82207
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Detailed information on the activities of the CIAT breeding program and African regional and national programs is presented, with special emphasis on the Great Lakes Regional Project in Central Africa. The main activities carried out in 1985 in the areas of training, var. development and introduction, cultural and chemical control of diseases and pests,…
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Capacitación científica y actividades de la red. Capacitación
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82202
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The methodology and achievements of training at CIAT are described. Tables indicating the training by discipline and category, and the participants trained in 1985 are included. (CIAT)
Publication year
1986
Authors
International Center for Tropical Agriculture…
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Root and tuber crops in Dominica, West Indies
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82271
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An analysis is made of both the land available for 6 root crops- -Colocasia esculenta, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, yam, sweet potato, cassava, and white potato--and the land potential for crop expansion, estimated to be 50 percent over the next 4 yr. Farm characteristics and cropping systems involving these crops are also described. The production costs of these crops are…
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Genetic progress towards grain quality in rice (Oryza sativa L.) through recurrent selection
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/55517
Publication year
2005
Authors
Martínez Racines, César Pompilio
Carabalí, Silvio J.
Borrero Correa, Jaime C.
Duque E., Myriam Cristina
Silva, J.
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Martínez Racines, César…
