Two very nice posts coming from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies show the interesting picture of reliability around the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), its last report (Fourth Assessment Report in 2007), and the supporting analyses and conclusions from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. In
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On Monday 8th February we were honoured to host a meeting of the Inter-Institutional network on climate change and food security for Colombia.  We took advantage of the meeting to showcase some of the research going on in DAPA related to downscaling of climate projections for the future, and the research we’re doing on quantifying
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In CIAT we are very proud to receive the visit of a number of important Colombian policy makers on Monday to discuss and indeed draft a policy document with respect to adaptation and mitigation of climate change in the agricultural sector (a so-called CONPES document).  The visitor list includes: Francisco Boshell (consultant for Departamento Nacional
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