Our partners at CRS Nicaragua recently released a video showing the connection between economic development and municipal governments. Key lessons that can be drawn from this work — which forms part of the ACORDAR project — include the need to promote linkages between farmer associations and local governments in addition to more traditional links to
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Entre el 22 y el 25 de Noviembre el equipo de gestores de impacto del CIAT (FIT, por sus siglas en inglés) fue invitado a Nicaragua para ofrecer un taller de facilitación a 25 miembros del proyecto ACORDAR en el cuál el CIAT (John Jairo Hurtado, Mark Lundy) provee contribuciones en el marco del desarrollo
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Por Carlos Zelaya Los días 18 y 19 de agosto se llevó a cabo en Matagalpa, Nicaragua, el Foro Nacional “Indicación geográfica (IO) y Denominación de origen (DO) para cafés en Nicaragua”.  Al evento, cuyo principal objetivo fue Sistematizar información que contribuya al consenso y sirva de base para la elaboración de un manual y
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Recent studies indicate that the most significant impacts of climate change will be experienced by smallholders in developing countries. Climate change therefore turns highly relevant for Nicaraguan people’s economy, due to the expected impacts on agriculture and especially on coffee cropping systems. The “Environmental and production issues” section of the “Canal 11” TV news, which
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Climate change will likely impact Mesoamerican agriculture and coffee is not the exception: Coffee growers could suffer significant negative impacts if adaptation measures are not taken at proper times. Mesoamerica is widely known for its high quality speciality-coffee-beans. For this reason, significant importance is given to the coffee cropping system across the region. CIAT’s Carlos
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