Since becoming available in June 2011, the on-line and stand-alone versions of the MarkSim GCM stochastic weather generator tool have been widely tested. A few problems were found, which have now been corrected.

I consider myself a young researcher, with plenty of years left in me to solve some of the problems society faces in terms of climate change.  But it is a little disconcerting when I discover that I’ll be retired by the time global climate models are of sufficient quality to plug directly into agricultural models. 
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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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Being an agricultural researcher –particularly if you have ever investigated the abiotic controls on plant growth – it’s very likely that you have come across the problem of finding appropriate weather data. This is particularly true when (a) you don’t work in an institution that has its own weather station(s); (b) you’re not well connected enough to get data from close colleagues for free; (c) you don’t have enough budget to purchase the data you need from other institutions; or (d) a combination of all the above occurs.

Los documentos disponibles para descargar en la derecha reportan sobre los métodos y resultados del proyecto CUP (Coffee Under Pressure) financiado por Green Mountain Coffee Roaster (GMCR) con el apoyo de Catholic Relief Service (CRS), y la colaboración de las organizaciones nacionales de México, Guatemala, El Salvador y Nicaragua quienes facilitaron los datos de evidencia
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En esta ocasión, comparto con ustedes algunas impresiones del taller regional de arroz de riego realizado en el Espinal, Tolima. Dicha actividad fue una de las iniciativas del proyecto llamado ‘Evaluación de Flujos de Inversión y Financiamiento para Acciones Mitigación y Adaptación en el Sector Agropecuario’ llevado a cabo por Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT)
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Research conducted by CIAT’s scientists has revealed that climatic suitability of much of Uganda’s tea growing district will decline significantly by 2050 after passing through a period of progressive decline between now and 2030. Average annual rainfall for example is expected to increase, while the monthly minimum and maximum temperatures are expected to increase moderately
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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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Climate change is expected to have varied impacts on the livelihoods of small-scale farmers around the world. Whether these changes will have negative or positive impacts will be highly dependent on the farmers’ ability to adapt and take advantage of the changing climatic conditions, while simultaneously overcoming the challenges. In light of the pending impacts
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Would you grow bananas here? Thought not.  But amazingly, this is the scene of a booming organic banana business which is competing with the Dominican Republic to deliver organic bananas to environmentally conscientious consumers in Europe and the US.  In a visit to Piura, Peru, I was told that this is now a US$50 million
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