Cross-posted in English on ASB Blog here La semana pasada más que 25 profesionales trabajando en temas relacionado con la reducción de emisiones de gases
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Cross-posted from AgTrials Blog Researchers for the AgTrials and AgMIP projects met at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida last week to advance collaboration between the two initiatives. The CCAFS project AgTrials is a file repository and database on evaluation of agricultural technologies, especially varieties that have been tested in crop improvement programs. The
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We were here to georeference 4 fincas, and document the division and land use history of the pastures

La semana pasada se hizo un recorrido en avioneta por la cuenca Aguaytía en la Amazonia Peruana. La visita al campo fue parte del proyecto REALU (Reducing Emissions from All Land Uses) del  ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins.   La meta del proyecto es desarrollar metodologías y capacidades para implementar estrategias efectivas para reducir emisiones de todo
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Cross-posted on CSI Blog Researchers from IITA, Bioversity, CIAT and CIP met last week at CIAT headquarters in Cali, Colombia to advance geographic targeting and priority setting for the  Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) research program.  Our activity is a background analysis for the larger RTB priority setting process that extends into the middle of 2013.
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RTB (Roots, Tubers and Bananas) Workshop Starts today in Cali Colombia CIAT’s headquarters. We have 19 people from IITA, CIAT, CIP and Bioversity. One of our objectives is to test out cloud technology for sharing geographic information.

We just published a conference report on the Global Cassava Partnership meeting held in Uganda in June. The report can be found at the web site of the journal Food Security, online here (subscription required).

35 especialistas en clasificación y mapeo de suelos de 19 países latinoamericanos están en CIAT esta semana para participar en el taller “Armonización de Bases de Datos de Suelos de América Latina y El Caribe, Bajo El Sistema de Clasificación WRB2010.” La iniciativa — patrocinado por la FAO  a través del Global Soil Partnership —
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Cross posted from AgTrials Ministries of agriculture, universities, donor agencies, NGO’s — everybody — should be investing in infrastructure for evaluating and testing agricultural technology. This blog post from the GCP shows the benefits. I had the great fortune to visit a trial site where Hannibal Muhtar (in photo) was helping researchers from a national
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Felicidades a nuestro colega Ernesto Girón, finalista en el concurso “Aplicaciones para el Clima.” Según el sitio web del Banco Mundial, la aplicación “WbPanorama permite ver datos de cambio climático del pasado, presente y futuro a través de un mapa interactivo.” Ernesto ha trabajado con DAPA durante varios años, incluyendo su participación en los proyectos MAPAZ, Terra-I
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