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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
Abstract
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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Chapter 17. Guatemala: community seed reserves restore maize diversity
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68804
Publication year
2015
Authors
Galluzzi, Gea
Lapena, I.
Full Citation
Galluzzi, G.; Lapena, I. (2015) Chapter 17. Guatemala: community seed reserves restore maize diversity. In: Community seed banks: origins, evolution and…
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Big Data for Climate Smart Agriculture in Kenya
“This is where the rubber hits the road,” said the World Bank’s Erick Fernandes, opening the first Big Data for Agriculture Roadshow in East Africa in Nairobi, on Wednesday May 24th. Speaking to participants from government, the private sector and research organizations, the Roadshow – co-organized by CIAT and the World Bank Group (WBG) – is intended to raise awareness of the…
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Lista la “selección” del CIAT para REDBIO 2016
La Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe para Biotecnología Agropecuaria y Forestal (REDBIO) y el CIAT han tenido una relación de colaboración productiva de muchos años con el fin de fortalecer las capacidades en biotecnología en esta región. Por esto, 49 investigadores de diferentes áreas del CIAT asistirán al IX Encuentro REDBIO 2016, que se celebrará entre el 27 de junio y el 1 de julio…
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Compartiendo la experiencia del CIAT en el Primer Congreso Internacional de Productividad en Nicaragua
Con el objetivo de crear un intercambio de experiencias dirigidas hacia el mejoramiento de la productividad agropecuaria, el Instituto Nicaragüense de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) realizó el Primer Congreso Internacional de Incremento a la Productividad Agropecuaria. El evento contó con la participación de 300 productores…
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Conocimiento e información para el desarrollo: una nueva visión para el futuro de las fincas cacaoteras de Nicaragua
En medio del espeso manto verde que cubre las laderas de la región montañosa del centro-norte de Nicaragua, Doreyda Dávila observa orgullosamente su plantación de cacao. “Tengo dos manzanas [1.4 hectáreas] de cacao. Están chiquitas, pero están creciendo”, sonríe. “Es una esperanza que tenemos para el futuro”. Para…
