A new paper in Applied Soil Ecology by researchers from CIAT and the University of Western Australia reports that smallholder agroforestry systems can retain relatively abundant, diverse populations of soil invertebrates

In recent weeks food production has become one of the most hotly discussed global debates. In particular, a number of reports and comments have been released by leading organisations about agriculture’s ability to feed a growing world population subject to changing climatic conditions and land constraints. One of these latest report’s was released yesterday by
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One of DAPA’s newest recruits is Bonny Ongom, who is based in CIAT-Africa’s Kawanda offices in Uganda. Bonny has just been hired as a research assistant for the CCAFS trial sites project (more on this soon), and to help with the update of the Atlas of common beans in Africa (see previous post). Bonny has
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Here is a new paper that we did with our colleagues at the Generation Challenge Program (GCP). The goal of this study was to “determine the most important production constraints and associated yield losses for six major food crops in 13 farming systems with high poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and East Asia.”  We
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