Last week, the CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information (CGIAR-CSI) took part in the international GIS conference (ESRI user conference 2012) in San Diego California. Participants from IFPRI and CIAT served information about ongoing research of geospatial scientists within the Consultative Group for International Agriculture Research  (CGIAR) to visitors of the booth located in the Environmental Showcase section.
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Guest post by Neil Palmer, crossposted from CIAT-News …or rather, different kinds of deforestation. The first of these shots shows “classic” slash-and-burn agriculture in the Peruvian Amazon. It combines a series of satellite images taken between 1990 and 2000. The coloured clusters depict recently cleared areas of vegetation (purple) and those where vegetation is re-growing
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Geospatial, Open-Source Hosting of Agriculture, Resources and Environmental Data (GEOSHARE) is a spatial database development initiative led by researchers at Purdue University, McGill, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI, University of Bonn, Stanford, Duke, Ohio State and others. The aim of the initiative is to compile global land-use statistics and other data at subnational levels into a globally
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CODATA’s Global Roads Data Development Task Group is developing a transportation data set for use in modeling and analysis related to roads and development.

CGIAR-CSI has a new look and a new webpage…..New logo for the CSI