BBC Mundo has just published this great in-depth article about coffee and climate change in Latin America. The article features the insights of CIAT climate change experts Peter Laderach and Andy Jarvis of our Decision and Policy Analysis program, as well as an abridged version of the Two Degrees Up: ColombiaRead More …
BBC features CIAT’s work on coffee and climate change
30 June, 2011 by (comments)Filed Under: CIAT in the media, Climate Change, Latin America and the Caribbean, Regions
2010: Hottest, wettest, coldest, driest on record
28 June, 2011 by (comments)New research has found that 2010 was plagued by some of the most extreme weather and temperatures in recorded history, according to the Guardian, following WMO reports that 2010 was the joint-warmest on record with 2005. And this year is shaping up to be one for the record books also, in particular the costliestRead More …
Filed Under: Climate Change
Brazilian food security expert to head up FAO
28 June, 2011 by (comments)José Graziano da Silva of Brazil has been elected Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a three-year term he will undertake as of January 2012, succeeding Senegal’s Jacques Diouf. Former Brazilian food security minister, Graziano da Silva earned recognition for his policies against hunger and malnutrition whichRead More …
Filed Under: Crops
G20 leaves food crisis looming?
24 June, 2011 by (comments)The food system will continue to suffer from a lack of strong leadership, and food price volatility will reign, say food experts and aid agencies following the first-ever G20 agricultural ministers’ conference to address food security and commodity regulation held this week in Paris. In particular, the contentious themes ofRead More …
Filed Under: Crops
CIAT takes the lead with peer-reviewed video first
22 June, 2011 by (comments)A team of entomologists at CIAT is the first in the CGIAR to publish in the world’s only peer-reviewed video journal. Dr. Soroush Parsa and his team produced a 10-minute video demonstrating the procedures for assessing spittlebug resistance in brachiaria grasses for the online publisher JoVE, the Journal of VisualizedRead More …
Filed Under: Latin America and the Caribbean, Multimedia, Regions
A new strategic European project will be launched by CIRAD at CIAT
20 June, 2011 by (comments)Towards a Latin America & Caribbean Knowledge Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) in partnership with Europe More than 25 experts on the bio-economy will be attending a three day meeting, 22-24 June, to participate in the official launch of this new strategic project called “Towards a Latin America & Caribbean Knowledge BasedRead More …
Filed Under: Latin America and the Caribbean, Regions
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