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Conservation agriculture meets relay cropping
Climate change and variability are resulting in reduced and sometimes lost productivity requiring substantial changes in farming practices. Traditional practices involving excessive tillage associated with continuing land degradation contribute to the productivity problem. In addition, the current population growth rate stands at 3%, and this is higher than the food production…
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Scaling out sustainable livestock production alternatives: financing schemes in the Colombian Amazon
Validating sustainable production alternatives as a strategy for reducing deforestation in the Caquetá department, Colombia, coupled with information generated about systems sustainability, served as a pilot platform to simulate application and uptake of a new agro-environmental financing incentive, as part of the Visión Amazonía…
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Climate change and rising population put pressure on essential crops in low-income regions
Crops such as bananas, potatoes and cassava are essential to food security in the world’s poorest regions. By 2050, their importance will increase, but climate change and population growth will put unprecedented pressure on production.
Climate change and population growth are increasing concerns for global food…
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Agricultural mechanization is a key input for the CIAT Rice and Bean Programs
Manual labor, machinery, and equipment are essential agricultural inputs; they are so critical that in their absence, agricultural food production would not be possible. Under some circumstances, what hinders crop production is having no access to enough machinery to obtain the maximum yield from available resources. Therefore, improving and incorporating…
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Mecanización agrícola, clave para los programas de Arroz y Fríjol del CIAT
Trabajo manual, máquinas y equipos son insumos agrícolas esenciales, tan notables, que sin ellos la producción agropecuaria de alimentos no sería posible. En algunas circunstancias lo que obstaculiza la producción de cultivos, es no disponer de las suficientes máquinas para obtener el máximo rendimiento de los recursos de que se disponen. Por tanto, la…
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CIAT, CAAS establish Beijing joint lab and expand scientific cooperation
In further strengthening scientific cooperation, CIAT and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (CAAS) is establishing a Joint Laboratory in Advanced Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in Beijing.
By: Dindo Campilan and Nguyen Tra My
The Letter of Agreement for the Joint Laboratory was signed last 27May in Cali, Colombia…
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Marañón y Empoderamiento de Mujeres en el Golfo de Fonseca
En el marco del proyecto Oportunidades Rurales en el Golfo de Fonseca, liderado por Swisscontact y con el financiamiento de Asuntos Mundiales Canadá—que busca contribuir a mejorar el bienestar económico de los pequeños empresarios y productores en la Región del Corredor Seco de Honduras—el CIAT coordinó dos trabajos de campo: uno cuantitativo y otro cualitativo en la…
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Mastercard partners with USADF and CIAT to open up new opportunities for smallholder farmers across Africa
Kampala, Uganda July 10, 2019 – Mastercard has today announced the signing of two public-private partnerships that will extend the reach of the Mastercard Farmers Network (MFN) to millions of smallholder farmers in Africa.
USADF and CIAT provide funding and support for award-winning Mastercard solution…
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Is climate-smart agriculture the silver bullet to attract youth to agriculture?
The average African farmer’s age is nearly 60. Stakeholders come together to brainstorm pathways of inspiring young people into agriculture.
Cross-posted from: CCAFS
With the average African farmer’s age hitting nearly 60 years, the sector’s stakeholders have been diligently working to come up with measures on how to…
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Sustainable Food Systems: Agriculture-Nutrition Linkages
All through her schooling life, Christine was convinced she was going to study Economics and Finance. She was sure that this would be the solution to growing the economy of Kenya. It naturally followed that, for her undergraduate studies, she enrolled for a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics at the Egerton University in Kenya.
In 2008…
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Sistemas alimentarios sostenibles: nexos entre agricultura y nutrición
Durante toda su vida escolar, Christine Chege estaba convencida de que estudiaría Economía y Finanzas. Estaba segura de que esto sería la solución para ver crecer la economía de Kenia. Naturalmente, para sus estudios de pregrado, se inscribió en el programa de Economía Agrícola en la Universidad Egerton en Kenia.
En 2008, recibió…
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CIAT leads project to reduce deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon
The initiative, jointly coordinated with the Peruvian Ministry of Environment (MINAM) and Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MINAGRI), the subnational government of Ucayali, and in partnership with international consultants Climate Focus (CF), aims to facilitate adoption of sustainable production practices for oil palm and cacao, and deliver on commitments to…
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African policy makers turn on to biofortification
Biofortification, or the genetic improvement of crops for better nutritional value, is an effort that was born in 1994 under the guidance of World Food Prize laureate Howdy Bouis. Biofortification seeks to address micronutrient deficiencies, or “hidden hunger,” by breeding crops for higher concentration of essential nutrients such as iron, zinc, and vitamin A in foods that people…
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CIAT and Grupo Papalotla signed an agreement for the development of new tropical pasture hybrids
This agreement will focus on developing high-productivity and eco-efficient pastures, in line with global initiatives to mitigate climate change and build sustainable food systems.
As global population grows so will demand for animal protein (Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving, 2009[1]), making livestock farming…
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El CIAT y Grupo Papalotla firmaron un acuerdo para el desarrollo de nuevos híbridos de pasturas tropicales
El acuerdo busca desarrollar pasturas eco eficientes y altamente productivas, en línea con las iniciativas para mitigar el cambio climático y crear sistemas alimentarios sostenibles.
A medida que la población mundial crece, también lo hará la demanda del consumo de proteína animal; convirtiendo la…
