Last Saturday, in Cancun, a deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in all of the world’s major economies was reached. This means a first step in a long process of negotiations that will continue through the next years, until a clearer deal with dates and amounts is set. Nevertheless, this is probably the most significant
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During the last week, the CCAFS management team, steering committee and Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) scenarios meeting were carried out in New Delhi (India). The regional meetings were all about understanding the demands from the region, and about understanding the specificities that should be taken into account.  Rice and wheat are the main crops within this
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La Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas de la Universidad de Nariño bajo la coordinación del programa académico de Ingeniería Forestal y los grupos de investigación ‘Agroforestería y Recursos Naturales’ y ‘Silvopastoril y Recursos Ambientales’, llevaron a cabo el Seminario Internacional Agroforestería frente al Cambio Climático entre el 24 y 26 de marzo del presente año en
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Widely known is the fact that we (the non climate research centers) completely depend on the IPCC to get the necessary climatic data for any assessment under the context of climate change. The need of such an organism providing and centralizing these kind of datasets is critical for research programmes such as CIAT’s DAPA. The
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“El cambio climático y los efectos en nuestra región” fue el título del taller realizado por la Cruz Roja Colombiana, seccional Valle del Cauca, el pasado viernes 26 febrero en las instalaciones de la Cámara de Comercio en la ciudad de Palmira, Valle del Cauca. Allí, el Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) hizo presencia
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Last week I presented an internal seminar in CIAT together with DAPA colleague Patrick Lavelle (also from IRD).  The first part of the presentation demonstrated the five reasons why the world needs an eco-efficient agriculture, then Patrick followed up by showing how we can establish eco-efficient landscapes to enable change on the ground using an
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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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If you’ve been following this blog in any way, you would probably have noticed that climate data is one of our main concerns regarding the assessment of impacts of climate change on agriculture and ecosystems. We need to know what will happen, and when, in order to focus adaptation and research investments. Governments must be
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Last week, the National Center for Agricultural Research and Extension (NCARE) [Ministry of Agriculture, Jordan] and ICARDA hosted the International Conference on Food Security and Climate Change in Dry Areas. Our colleague Luigi Guarino very nicely followed the conference. The final output of the meeting is worth blogging here though. Attendees of the conference were able to come up
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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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