El programa DAPA del Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), realizó un convenio con el programa de servicios ecosistémicos y Gestión (ESM), del Instituto Internacional de análisis de sistemas aplicados (IIASA) con el objetivo de identificar el impacto económico que tiene el cultivo de café y cacao frente al cambio climático. El análisis tiene 3 fases: 1)
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Last week a new paper was on-line published in the journal Food Security based on a study lead by the Decision and Policy Analysis Program (DAPA)’s  researchers in collaboration with the Cassava Entomology area of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) . The study applies Ecological Niche Modeling (ENM) to highlight potential geographical shifts
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There seems to be no formal global program to develop subnational agricultural land-use statistics. That may change soon. Led by Purdue University, researchers are cooking up a solution.

SRTM Data in Amazon’s Cloud : BLOG by Tom MacWright from developmentSEED Recently developmentSEED processed SRTM 90m Digital Elevation Data from CGIAR into a 600GB Amazon EBS to make this data easier accessible. This dataset were provided by CIAT-CSI (Jarvis A., H.I. Reuter, A.  Nelson, E. Guevara, 2008, Hole-filled  seamless SRTM data V4, International  Centre
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NUPS – Negleted and underutiliced plant species: KML-File

This crop map is part of global database of harvested area and production for the main food staples (You and Wood, 2006). The map shows derived estimates of the spatial distribution and productivity of crops for 10-km grids using a novel allocation approach involving the fusion of sub-national crop production statistics.