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Tracking your publications
Two principal rules apply when sharing your work online: Ensure your work is stored properly and always use consistent and trackable links when sharing your work.
1. Ensure your work is stored properly
Perhaps the most important rule is to ensure that your work has been stored in a sustainable location. WordPress, Google Docs and Dropbox are excellent tools, but they are…
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Tips on going Open Access with CIAT
1. Publish Open Access:
CIAT encourages scientists to publish in legitimate journals that best suit research needs and reach target users. However, CIAT also encourages researchers to make their research open in order to reach the widest possible audience, especially those from developing countries who cannot afford access to expensive scientific journal subscriptions. With these aims in…
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Predatory journals and how to avoid them
Unfortunately, the rise in Open Access publishing has led to an increase exploitative online publishing behaviours. Commonly referred to as “predatory journals”, these publishers will often pursue scientists with spam-like proposals via email and will charge high publishing fees. Publishing in a predatory journal undermines the credibility of your work.
By Elizabeth Campillo and Megan…
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CIAT Research Online - Open Access Week Newsletter!
Please enjoy a copy of our Open Access Week edition of Your CIAT Research Online. Subscribe here to receive the next issue by email.
October, 2016
Dear All,
The Data and Information Services team is sharing with you the latest CIAT Research Online Newsletter. This newsletter includes all the 2016 research outputs submitted since our…
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Brewing a cassava crop model
CIAT and partner research centers from Vietnam work jointly on a project to develop and test a new simulation model for cassava. The model will facilitate farm-scale decision-making for improved agronomy in Southeast Asia and globally.
All models are imperfect and designed for different uses. That’s our way of saying “all models are wrong, but some are useful,” one of the most…
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The business of quick-cook beans
When it comes to transforming agriculture in Africa, the need to join forces with the private sector has surfaced again and again in recent times, notably at the Africa Green Revolution Forum in Nairobi last month.
Transforming farming, and the business of agriculture, needs to be exactly that: a business.
And achieving that, as noted by Simon Carter, Regional Director of…
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Becoming a better facilitator
Constantly, professionals of CIAT’s research and management areas face the challenge of organizing workshops, meetings and gatherings where they aspire to get feedback from their teams, partners or farmers. However, getting people to participate and openly express their thoughts or have the willingness to share their knowledge is often not easy.
For this reason, CIAT’s Human…
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La visión indígena, clave para afrontar el cambio climático en la Orinoquia
Atendiendo los retos que representa el cambio climático, la Corporación para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Área de Manejo Especial La Macarena (Cormacarena), la Corporación Autónoma Regional de la Orinoquia (Corporinoquia), Ecopetrol y el CIAT, desarrollan actualmente el proyecto “Orinoquia, juntos frente al cambio climático”, una iniciativa que tiene como…
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La expansión de LINK en los zapatos de Heifer llega a Asia y África
Tras el éxito en Centro y Suramérica, el trabajo colaborativo entre el CIAT y Heifer Internacional para el desarrollo de cadenas de valor y negocios inclusivos se ha expandido a 13 países de Asia y África –nuevamente, en forma de ciclo de aprendizaje en torno a la metodología LINK. En esta ocasión, contamos con el apoyo del Centro para el Desarrollo y la innovación…
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Global conservation strategy for Musa (Banana and Plantain): A consultative document prepared in collaboration with partners in the Musa research-and-development community. March 2006.
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/104899
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This document presents a strategy to rationalize the conservation of the banana gene pool and promote the safe use and distribution of a wide range of diversity, all the way to farmers fields.
Publication year…
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Publishing Research Data
CIAT like most research institutions generates a lot of research data and would like to publish it. Data publishing involves digital dissemination of research data and supporting information such as metadata, documentation, models, code and unpublished reports in such a way that it is persistently and uniquely identifiable.
In the past research data was not viewed as a central…
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Study finds 40% more milk and tens of millions of dollars in revenue possible for African farmers adopting new drought-resistant pasture grass
New varieties of high-quality, drought-resistant forage grasses could boost milk production by 40 percent and generate millions of dollars in economic benefits for struggling East African dairy farmers, according to a new analysis by experts at CIAT.
“Farmers…
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Climate change: coming to a supermarket near you
A new documentary about how climate change will affect both coffee producers in Colombia and consumers in the developed world will air on German television this weekend. (Sunday, 6/11-4:30pm).
Climate change in the supermarket aims to show how the often abstract news of failed harvests in distant countries can have an impact on the proverbial man-in-the-…
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Why does Ecuador import coffee which the country is fully capable of producing itself?
To overcome a coffee production deficit, the government of Ecuador is stimulating the purchase of locally produced robusta beans, in the hope of creating a more favorable atmosphere for improved relations between the coffee industry and domestic growers. The industry needs about one million 60-kilogram sacks of coffee per year, but local…
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Capitalizing our experience in capitalization processes
Experience capitalization is referred to as “capitalisation des expériences” in French and “sistematización de experiencias” in Spanish.
When we start a capitalization process, we always tell our partners why it is important to capture our learning in a product that we can share with others. We are talking about avoiding repeating the same mistakes…
