On the 10th of December, the Global Crop Diversity Trust announced that Norway pledged US 50 million for the conservation of wild genepools of major crops. Read the official press release here, and take a look at Cary Fowler’s (Executive Director of the Trust) talk on the TED Global Conference, clever and encouraging: CIAT and
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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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Last week, Jeff Price, a WWF scientist member of The Wallace Initiative had a meeting in Tanzania, with conservationists and policy makers, pretty much similar to the meeting we held at CIAT a couple of months ago. During that meeting, Jeff used much of our modeling outputs to teach how biodiversity conservation should be done
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Last year during a meeting at Copenhagen in March, our program leader Andy Jarvis performed a set of very interesting presentations on the impacts of climate change on agriculture and biodiversity. Luckily, and thanks to our hard work, and to substantial efforts done by Jeff Price from WWF, Rachel Warren from Tyndall Centre,  and to
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After the good news earlier this week on the approval of one of what will likely be a flagship project for DAPA (the Site-Specific Agriculture project for Fruit Cultivation, by ASOHOFRUCOL), we were noticed yesterday on the approval of a new project under the Panorama Andino framework, financed by the Comunidad Andina and in collaboration with CONDESAN.
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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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As the world gets warmer, plants are expected to change physiological and ecological responses to the environment. A recent article in the journal Trends in Plant Science, part of the research done by Prof. Josep Penuelas and Dr. Michael Staudt, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) indicates that volatile compounds producing fragrances in plants are likely
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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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