The colleagues at After the Harvest recently uploaded their short documentary film, “After the Harvest: Fighting Hunger in the Coffee Lands” for public viewing. This movie is based on field research conducted by CIAT colleagues in Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

Guest post by Dr. Helena Pachón, CIAT Nutritionist and Director of AgroSalud How do you pinpoint where the most nutritionally vulnerable are located?  Answering this question poses an important challenge for nutrition professionals as most nutrition information is gathered at the national or state level, not at the local level.  At CIAT, we collaborated with
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A widely discussed issue relating to feeding the world’s growing population is the debate between conventional farming VS. organic methods. A special ‘food report’ by the Economist a few weeks ago made their view very clear. They argue that organic farming could feed Europe and America but not the rest of the world. This debate
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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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The Worldwatch Institute has recently published its annual State of the World report titled, “Innovations that Nourish the Planet”, which makes some very insightful proposals on tackling hunger and supporting rural liviehoods. The report argues that previous attempts to feed the world’s population have failed because approximately 925 million people globally still go hungry everyday.
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The director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Dr. Carlos Seré, has recently published an insightful in the Guardian titled; Backing smallholder farmers today could avert food crises tomorrow.  Based on the rise of food crises and food riots in the developing world, Dr. Seré makes a strong case for using smallholder farming
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With just under five days before World Food Day, we’re seeing some significant attention being placed on food, agriculture, and rural development.  From the private sector’s push to standardize sustainability metrics and impact analysis for investment in agriculture to important papers and speeches on the status of food security, climate change, and hunger, we’ve collected
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