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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Heat-tolerant wild beans tapped to breed commercial beans for hotter climates
09.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Using the genetic traits of a wild bean species, CIAT and the Crop Trust are…
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Preparing Ghanaian cocoa farmers for changing climate conditions
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
CIAT collaborates with CocoaLink to help young farmers mitigate the negative effects of climate chan…
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Convention on Biological Diversity adopts indicator to track conservation of useful plants
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Developed by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture and the Crop Trust, the indicator pro…
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Linking local and global food systems for more healthy and sustainable communities
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Biodiversity
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Food security
Three new areas of investigation related to diets, nutrition and sustainability, starting with short…
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Could these crops save Peruvian forests?
29.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
As noted in a previous blog, a study conducted by CIAT confirms that cacao production…
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Atlas of Climate Change Impact on cocoa production in Central America and the Caribbean
25.07.19What could be the impact of climate change on cocoa in the Central America and…
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Terra-i user manual for monitoring land-cover changes is now available
24.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Terra-i, a project by CIAT’s Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) and Agroecosystems and Sustainabl…
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What do you mean the hamburger isn’t American?
19.07.19Scientists and graphic designers are joining forces to strengthen the communication power of researc…
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CIAT and Grupo Papalotla signed an agreement for the development of new tropical pasture hybrids
12.07.19As global population grows so will demand for animal protein (Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving, 2009…
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CIAT leads project to reduce deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon
12.07.19The initiative, jointly coordinated with the Peruvian Ministry of Environment (MINAM) and Ministry o…
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African policy makers turn on to biofortification
12.07.19Biofortification, or the genetic improvement of crops for better nutritional value, is an effort tha…
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Is climate-smart agriculture the silver bullet to attract youth to agriculture?
11.07.19With the average African farmer’s age hitting nearly 60 years, the sector’s stakeholders have be…
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Mastercard partners with USADF and CIAT to open up new opportunities for smallholder farmers across Africa
10.07.19Kampala, Uganda July 10, 2019 - Mastercard has today announced the signing of two public-private…
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CIAT, CAAS establish Beijing joint lab and expand scientific cooperation
09.07.19In further strengthening scientific cooperation, CIAT and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Scienc…
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Agricultural mechanization is a key input for the CIAT Rice and Bean Programs
08.07.19The adoption of farm mechanization in the agricultural production processes of crops, such as rice…
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Scaling out sustainable livestock production alternatives: financing schemes in the Colombian Amazon
04.07.19Peru and Colombia, countries harboring 23 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, are aware of…
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Conservation agriculture meets relay cropping
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In 2003, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) designed a set of long-term trials…
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The world needs a global system to detect and halt the spread of emerging crop diseases
28.06.19In the same manner that nations collaborate to detect and stop human pandemics, a global…
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