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The power of open data: Innovation, improved agriculture, impact
Open data can mean different things to different people. For me and my team, it’s not about giving away data, it’s about giving it back.
Leroy Mwanzia, Data and Information Manager at CIAT. Photo by: Neil Palmer / CIAT
Over the last 50 years, CIAT scientists have generated a gamut of data, ranging from crop models to maps of climate change…
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El equipo CIAT en Centroamérica, logros científicos con impacto social
La pasión por la ciencia y la dedicación en el trabajo son dos de las cualidades más poderosas del equipo de Centroamérica que, al igual que los demás integrantes del CIAT, se levantan todos los días a combatir la pobreza, la inseguridad alimentaria, la desigualdad de género, la malnutrición, el cambio climático y la degradación de tierras y del medio ambiente,…
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Datos abiertos para detener la desnutrición en África
¿Te imaginas si pudiéramos predecir con exactitud que se avecina una crisis de malnutrición de la misma manera que pronosticamos problemas inminentes de seguridad alimentaria como el hambre extrema?
El CIAT está utilizando Big Data y Machine Learning para desarrollar un Sistema de Alerta Temprana de Nutrición (NEWS – Nutrition Early Warning System– por…
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Sharing data wasn't cool, but neither were we – how WorldClim changed my life
I was working on toilets at the time. Suddenly, I found myself part of one of the biggest scientific movements in the history of CGIAR.
It was 2005. As a geospatial analyst, I had a short contract to map the best places to install latrines in rural Nicaragua.
While I was in Matagalpa, in the country’s coffee zone, one of my…
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El CIAT recibe condecoración de la Cámara de Representantes por su aporte a la ciencia
El representante Rafael Eduardo Palau, en nombre de la Cámara de Representantes, entrega la Condecoración orden de la Democracia Simón Bolívar en grado Cruz Comendador a Ruben Echeverría, Director General del CIAT.
La Cámara de Representantes de Colombia condecoró hoy con la Orden de la Democracia Simón Bolívar, en…
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El CIAT mejora capacidades de redacción en Centroamérica
Del 23 al 27 de octubre, el equipo de CIAT Centroamérica asistió al “Taller de actualización de la expresión escrita’’ con el fin de mejorar las destrezas y habilidades de redacción de los miembros del equipo en el ámbito laboral.
Los objetivos principales del taller fueron: mejorar la redacción de informes técnicos y textos expositivos, conocer y…
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Descritores para Feijão frade ou caupi (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.)
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/104074
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Traduzido do original em Inglês: IBPGR. 1983. Descriptors for cowpea. International Board for Plant Genetic Resources, Rome, Italy. 30 pp. O feijão frade (feijão caupi) (Vigna unguiculata) é uma leguminosa da família das Fabáceas conhecido também como ”guandul” ou ”feijão de cabecinha preta”. É rico em proteínas, tolerante à seca e, dada a sua…
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Sweet deliverance by sweetpotato
Like many of his neighbors, Nguyen Duc Du relied on government food aid when typhoons – which regularly visited Tan Tien village in Quang Binh province – destroyed their rice crops. Except one time, nearly a decade ago, when the valley got flooded and no relief teams could get in. Then they had their stock of boiled and sun-dried sweetpotatoes to thank for tiding them over while waiting for food to…
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Why getting the right food on the table is central not just to the health of our children, but to the health of our continent
We are in the midst of an emerging crisis. Now is the time to address it, so that as Africa’s populations become wealthier, we become healthier too. And yet, Africa’s obesity levels are rising. At the same time, under-nutrition, tied to obesity and the rise of diseases like type II diabetes, are on the rise…
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High-iron beans: a new "superfood" for Colombia
New high-iron beans have been officially released in Colombia. They contain as much as 60% more iron than normal beans, and are intended to address the problem of iron deficiency – the world’s most persistent nutritional ailment.
Affecting up to 2 billion people globally, iron deficiency can lead to impaired cognitive and physical development in…
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What's your beef? Why it might be time to give livestock a break
Cows are regularly portrayed as evil: four-legged, four-stomached, greenhouse gas machines chomping through forests and destroying the planet.It’s no wonder the idea of a climate-smart livestock system sounds like an oxymoron.
Nevertheless, I’m promised a glimpse. To get it, we head into Colombia’s restive, mountainous, Cauca Department…
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A "model" team addressing climate change
In the face of the fact that climatic change could increase the frequency and severity of droughts or rainy seasons, exposing farmers to adverse climates that would cause severe damage to crops, the Crop and Climate modeling team of CIAT’s Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) Research Area supports the Center’s research processes through the development and implementation of agro-…
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Se entrega al Gobierno de Honduras herramienta para orientar proyectos de agua para pequeños agricultores
Con éxito fue realizada la entrega al Gobierno de Honduras de AGRI v.1 el pasado 25 de mayo en la Casa Presidencial hondureña, en una reunión coordinada por USAID\Honduras y la Presidencia. Al lanzamiento asistió el señor presidente Juan Orlando Hernández y parte importante de su gabinete como el ministro coordinador de…
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No compromise: food security and carbon hoofprints
Sessions at this week’s Africa Agriculture Science Week this week (June 13-17) in Kigali included discussion on the potential of livestock forages to boost farm production and sequester carbon.
At night, Rwanda’s capital Kigali is a sparkling carpet of lights. Yet the tightly packed white beams throw light on a more serious circumstance facing the Rwandan…
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Big Data for Climate Smart Agriculture in Uganda
More and more conferences and workshops use social media for live reporting. Take a look of our coverage in this Storify:
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