The week from 7th -10th of August a meeting was held at CIAT headquarters between crop modelers and physiologists from CIAT, and the maintainers and developers of the DSSAT-CROPSIM-CASSAVA crop model with the purpose of discussing the improvement of the current cassava model into DSSAT and set up strategies towards the development of a robust
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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).

Una herramienta para la toma de decisiones en bioseguridad en referencia de cultivos genéticamente modificados

In addition to the finalization of the SADU project in Laos which we mentioned earlier this week, CIAT also conducted similar work in the uplands of Vietnam from 2003 until the end of 2009. Final reports on that work have been submitted and the project officially over for two years now. However a few weeks
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If a crop were a film star, what would cassava be?  Well a month ago we established that cassava was a Rambo root – very difficult to kill.  It’s well known resistance to drought and heat was shown to stand up to climate change in our paper in Tropical Plant Biology.  Most interesting in that
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These are the known and predicted distributions of cassava brown streak disease (CBSD). The known distribution is from the scientific literature. Ecological niche models were developed to predict suitability for CBSD

From the CIAT Blog, found this interview with Tony Bellotti about a recent paper where Tony joined Vanessa Herrera and Glenn Hyman (both of DAPA) to assess the geographic distribution of potential threats to cassava production. More links: Vanessa’s post on DAPA CIAT Press Release The Food Security Paper

DAPA’s Vanessa Herrera’s recent paper in Food Security was featured in the online journal New Agriculturist. See article here.

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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DAPA presented climate change research in the keynote speech to open the Colombian Entomological Society annual conference in Manizales today. Beyond the normal background on climate change, some results were shown on how climate change might affect the distribution of some insect pests affecting cassava, and also some results from CIP’s modelling of potato late
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