Policymakers should incorporate nutrition and farming, if the world is going to rise to the challenges of hunger, malnutrition, and a growing population. That’s the message from the Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health conference in New Delhi, India, organized by CIAT’s CGIAR sister-center the International Food Policy ResearchRead More …
Ushering in the age of biofortification
14 February, 2011 by (comments)Filed Under: Agro-ecology and Economics
New videos bring agriculture and nutrition into focus
3 February, 2011 by (comments)We recommend you take 3-and-a-half minutes to watch this new video from our friends at Farming First, about improving agriculture and nutrition. You’ll also see a few CIAT pictures from our Flickr page in there…and a very troubling countdown timer. Click to watch. Farming First Nutrition Video from Farming FirstRead More …
Filed Under: Multimedia
Agrosalud – new digital story coming this week on the CIAT blog
3 January, 2011 by (comments)The groundbreaking work of the CIAT-based biofortification program AgroSalud will feature in a new digital story to be announced on the CIAT blog this week. While you wait, you can get a quick, visual overview of the program by checking out this photo essay published in New Agriculturist. Agrosalud develops,Read More …
Filed Under: Multimedia
Tackling malnutrition – with food, not pills
16 June, 2010 by (comments)We’re sure you’ll be keen to read Michael Latham of Cornell University’s scathing comment piece, The great vitamin A fiasco, published in the first edition of the online journal World Nutrition recently. The article is an extensive, critical account of how the international nutrition community has responded to worldwide vitaminRead More …
Filed Under: Latin America and the Caribbean, Regions
In pictures – AgroSalud featured in New Agriculturist
5 May, 2010 by (comments)A picture feature on the work of AgroSalud, the pioneering CIAT-based initiative working to improve the nutritional content of staple crops in Latin America, appears in the latest edition of New Agriculturist. The online publication, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), reports on cutting edge agricultural scienceRead More …
Filed Under: CIAT in the media, Latin America and the Caribbean, Regions
Drought tolerant beans bring relief to farmers
8 January, 2010 by (comments)Millions of farmers are set to benefit from a new drought-tolerant bean variety developed jointly by CIAT and the national agricultural research program of Nicaragua. The release of the hardy “INTA Sequia” common bean, which can survive extreme drought, coincided with last month’s United Nations COP15 Climate Change conference inRead More …
Filed Under: Africa, Beans, Crops, Latin America and the Caribbean, Regions
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