Documentary on hunger in the coffee lands released
The colleagues at After the Harvest recently uploaded their short documentary film, “After the Harvest: Fighting Hunger in the Coffee Lands” for public viewing. This movie is based on field research conducted by CIAT colleagues in Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
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- Gender and climate: a new partnership in every respect
- The elephant in the room – or is it a cow?
- POVERTY, GAPS IN RURAL COLOMBIA
- Monitoreo, reporte y verificación (MRV) en REDD+ para Colombia
- crop wild relatives and their potential for crop improvement
The Decision and Policy Analysis Program (DAPA) believes strongly in the power of information for designing effective policies in terms of investments in agricultural development and natural resource conservation and management.Our goal is to contribute to improved decision-making across Latin America. We do this by providing novel and accurate information about agricultural systems and associated natural resources at all levels, from farm to continent.
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Feature Articles
Gender and climate: a new partnership in every respect
The most exciting things in science often happen when two disciplines meet for the first time, or when two complementary groups join together. It seems the stars are aligned, as we’re happy to report a new partnership on gender and climate (change). Agricultural and climate scientists from CIAT and CCAFS have joined forces with gender experts
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The elephant in the room – or is it a cow?
Of all the sectors contributing to anthropological greenhouse gas emissions, the livestock sector has been the most consistently difficult to pin down. How does one actually measure emissions from a living, changing animal? Do you count the CO2 they exhale with every breath? What about all the rainforest that’s been chopped down to accommodate pasture
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Banana industry predicted to disappear
Is what The Guardian and TheScientist said some time ago, considering various facts, within which the most important relied on the genetic uniformity of the vast production areas in the major producing countries, who mostly grow AAA Cavendish dessert type bananas and an upcoming threat named Fusarium wilt Tropical Race 4 (a.k.a TR4). If their predictions
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Climate analogues tool released
Climate analogues have been unleashed on the world today with the publication of our working paper on the methodology, and an online interface to run the model. It’s already been picked up by a number of other websites, including Nature’s News Blog, Voice of America and SciDev.net. Developed in partnership between CCAFS, CIAT’s DAPA program,
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Climate Change
Vulnerabilidad-Café bajo presión-Coffee Under Pressure (CUP) Los documentos disponibles para descargar reportan la metodología diseñada para identificar la vulnerabilidad en los medios de vida de las familias cafetaleras y estrategias de adaptación al cambio climático en cuatro países de la región Mesoamericana, siendo Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala y México. Además se adjunta un informe de cada país con la aplicación de
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Markets
POVERTY, GAPS IN RURAL COLOMBIA The following paper is now available only on request : r.i.parra-pena@cgiar.org (Document in Spanish only) POBREZA, BRECHAS Y RURALIDAD EN COLOMBIA (POVERTY, GAPS IN RURAL COLOMBIA) Rafael Isidro Parra-Peña S.[1]π Liliana Alejandra Ordoñez δ Camilo Andrés Acosta δ Resumen Se busca identificar políticas que permitan disminuir las brechas socio-económicas presentes entre el campo y la
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Ecosystem Services
crop wild relatives and their potential for crop improvement Crop Wild Relatives (CWR), like many plant species worldwide, face increasing threats in many regions from habitat destruction, transitions in agricultural practices, and invasive species, among other factors. Although the weedy nature of many CWR may make this group of plants more resilient to human impacts than more sensitive plant groups, a substantial proportion of
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Impact
ASB researchers facilitate REDD roundtable group meeting in Pucallpa, Peru Cross-posted from the website of the ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins. (Pucallpa, Peru, 13 March 2012) Members of the Mesa REDD Ucayali –
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Data
The Global Soil Partnership This week in Rome the Global Soil Partnership met at FAO Headquarters. The partnership facilitates the participation of organizations and countries worldwide in efforts toward sustainable management of soil resources for food security and climate change adaptation and mitigation. CIAT leads a key effort in this field in Africa — the Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS).
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