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CIAT’s new annual report – out now
We’re very pleased to announce that CIAT’s annual report 2009 is now available. An Eco-Efficiency Imperative for Tropical Agriculture elaborates CIAT’s commitment to sustainable, scientific solutions...
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CIAT photos on the BBC
Following last week’s announcement here on the CIAT blog about our Flickr page breaking through the 100,000 hits barrier, today the BBC has used two of our shots to illustrate their advance coverage of...
View ArticleAmbitious cocoa project featured in Coffee & Cocoa International
The latest on an ambitious project involving CIAT and key partners to improve the livelihoods of West African cocoa farmers is featured in the current edition of trade magazine Coffee and Cocoa...
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UN conference delegates visit CIAT gene bank
Delegates from a United Nations (UN) meeting on genetic resources have visited CIAT’s gene bank to learn more about the institution’s role in protecting and conserving plant material and its commitment...
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In pictures – AgroSalud featured in New Agriculturist
A picture feature on the work of AgroSalud, the pioneering CIAT-based initiative working to improve the nutritional content of staple crops in Latin America, appears in the latest edition of New...
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CIAT’s Annual Program Review gets underway
CIAT scientists from around the world have arrived in Colombia for the institution’s Annual Program Review. The three-day event is a chance for them to showcase their work to improve rural livelihoods...
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Amazon study fuels soybean debate
A recently-published study by a team of scientists at CIAT and McGill University in Canada suggests that increased soybean production could be indirectly causing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon....
View ArticleNew audio slideshow – Carlos Pérez del Castillo on CGIAR reform
CIAT’s Annual Program Review is well underway, and following yesterday’s keynote addresses, we caught up with Carlos Pérez del Castillo, Chairman of the CGIAR Consortium Board, who is now in charge of...
View ArticleCLAYUCA featured in New Agriculturist
The CIAT-based Latin American and Caribbean Consortium to Support Cassava Research and Development (CLAYUCA) features in the latest edition of New Agriculturist, as an example of effective...
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CIAT’s Andy Jarvis speaks to Mexican press
CIAT’s Andy Jarvis is quoted extensively in an article in Mexico City’s daily newspaper El Universal. The Decision and Policy Analysis Program leader, pictured above at CIAT’s Annual Program Review...
View ArticleFormer CIAT board member leads race to become the next Colombian president
Ex-CIAT Board of Trustees (BOT) member Antanus Mockus is currently favourite to become the next president of Colombia, as the country gears up for national elections at the end of the month. The...
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In the news: Reuters covers CIAT’s work on coffee and climate change
CIAT’s Peter Laderach is quoted by leading news agency Reuters today, in an article about the threats and challenges of climate change to coffee production in Central America. Laderach, of CIAT’s...
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Tackling malnutrition – with food, not pills
We’re sure you’ll be keen to read Michael Latham of Cornell University’s scathing comment piece, The great vitamin A fiasco, published in the first edition of the online journal World Nutrition...
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CIAT forages featured in New Agriculturist
CIAT’s pioneering research into the forage grass brachiaria is featured in the latest edition of the DFID-funded online development magazine New Agriculturist. The article looks at brachiaria’s...
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Thailand in “sting operation” to kill cassava pest
Eco-efficient South American wasp to seek-and-destroy mealybug plague A carefully crafted emergency campaign is underway to thwart a pest outbreak wreaking havoc on cassava production in Thailand....
View ArticleWasp release creates media buzz
The release of South American parasitic wasps by the Thai Department of Agriculture to tackle an infestation of cassava mealybugs received wide international media interest over the weekend, which...
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Thai farmers aid spread of parasitic wasp
Thai cassava farmers came prepared for the official release of a swarm of parasitic wasps, which it is hoped will help the country tackle a devastating cassava mealybug epidemic. Some of them brought...
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Colombia’s fruit “revolution” begins
An ambitious new project that could help transform horticulture in Colombia – by the power of knowledge alone – is underway. From August 2010, fruit producers from all over the country will begin...
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Colombian president hears juicy details of CIAT-led fruit project
CIAT’s Andy Jarvis was delighted to get surprise chance to talk to Colombia’s president Alvaro Uribe about the organisation’s “revolutionary” new fruit project, last week. Uribe, who leaves office this...
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Latin America – the world’s future rice bowl?
Latin America and the Caribbean could become “the world’s future rice bowl”, an international conference has heard. In his presentation to around 400 delegates at the XI International Rice conference...
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