Last week a new paper was on-line published in the journal Food Security based on a study lead by the Decision and Policy Analysis Program (DAPA)’s  researchers in collaboration with the Cassava Entomology area of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) . The study applies Ecological Niche Modeling (ENM) to highlight potential geographical shifts
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La Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas de la Universidad de Nariño bajo la coordinación del programa académico de Ingeniería Forestal y los grupos de investigación ‘Agroforestería y Recursos Naturales’ y ‘Silvopastoril y Recursos Ambientales’, llevaron a cabo el Seminario Internacional Agroforestería frente al Cambio Climático entre el 24 y 26 de marzo del presente año en
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Widely known is the fact that we (the non climate research centers) completely depend on the IPCC to get the necessary climatic data for any assessment under the context of climate change. The need of such an organism providing and centralizing these kind of datasets is critical for research programmes such as CIAT’s DAPA. The
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“El cambio climático y los efectos en nuestra región” fue el título del taller realizado por la Cruz Roja Colombiana, seccional Valle del Cauca, el pasado viernes 26 febrero en las instalaciones de la Cámara de Comercio en la ciudad de Palmira, Valle del Cauca. Allí, el Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) hizo presencia
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Two very nice posts coming from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies show the interesting picture of reliability around the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), its last report (Fourth Assessment Report in 2007), and the supporting analyses and conclusions from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. In
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We have just finished an study on “Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Kenyan Coffee Sector” for Sangana Commodities Ltd., with the support of The German Technical Cooperation (GTZ). In this study, CIAT’s DAPA elaborated future climate scenarios to investigate the impact of climate change on coffee producing regions in Kenya. The study aimed to
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If you’ve been following this blog in any way, you would probably have noticed that climate data is one of our main concerns regarding the assessment of impacts of climate change on agriculture and ecosystems. We need to know what will happen, and when, in order to focus adaptation and research investments. Governments must be
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After the good news earlier this week on the approval of one of what will likely be a flagship project for DAPA (the Site-Specific Agriculture project for Fruit Cultivation, by ASOHOFRUCOL), we were noticed yesterday on the approval of a new project under the Panorama Andino framework, financed by the Comunidad Andina and in collaboration with CONDESAN.
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Last week, the National Center for Agricultural Research and Extension (NCARE) [Ministry of Agriculture, Jordan] and ICARDA hosted the International Conference on Food Security and Climate Change in Dry Areas. Our colleague Luigi Guarino very nicely followed the conference. The final output of the meeting is worth blogging here though. Attendees of the conference were able to come up
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Whilst lots of attention is directed at projecting the likely effects of climate change on all sorts of facets of society, there remains little consensus on what will really happen. Especially in regards of biodiversity and agriculture-related matters. Lots of people state that climate change will bring undesirable effects on, say, species distributions, ecosystems, and therefore on
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