BBC photo gallery features six CIAT projects to mark Earth Day

7 May, 2012 by (comments)
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The Spanish language news site BBC Mundo has featured six CIAT projects as part of a 12-picture photo gallery to mark Earth Day. The gallery covers CIAT work with water harvesting in Central America; biofortification, climate change resilience, site-specific agriculture, and gene bank conservation in Colombia. Click below to findRead More …

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Filed Under: Agro-ecology and Economics, Beans, Cassava, CIAT in the media, Crops, Latin America and the Caribbean, Regions, Rice, Tropical Fruits

Water harvesting project makes a splash

24 November, 2011 by (comments)

If you’ve been following the CIAT blog for the last few months, you’ll know we’ve been getting rather excited about a series of water harvesting pilot projects going on in Nicaragua, which have completely transformed food production there. This is much, much more than just collecting rainwater in buckets. ReadRead More …

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Filed Under: Crops

BBC features CIAT’s work on coffee and climate change

30 June, 2011 by (comments)

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 …

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Filed Under: CIAT in the media, Climate Change, Latin America and the Caribbean, Regions

Food prices worldwide reach highest ever level…

19 January, 2011 by (comments)

…according to Today, the BBC’s flagship radio news programme. That’s higher than the peak during the food price crisis of 2008, which triggered foot shortages, riots, and contributed to the toppling of at least one government. Former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz, speaking on the programme, blamed high agriculturalRead More …

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Filed Under: Agro-ecology and Economics

CIAT photos on the BBC

25 March, 2010 by (comments)

Following last week’s announcement here on the CIAT blog about our Flickr page breaking through the 100,000 hits barrier, today the BBC has used two of our shots to illustrate their advance coverage of the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD), which takes place in Montpellier, France, nextRead More …

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Filed Under: Africa, Asia, CIAT in the media, Latin America and the Caribbean, Regions

CIAT’s Flickr page – 100,000 hits and rising

17 March, 2010 by (comments)

CIAT photographs hosted on the Flickr website have received more than 100,000 hits – in less than a year. The milestone figure was reached this morning. The ever-growing online photo library features over 1,300 images of CIAT’s work to find eco-efficient solutions to hunger in the tropics. Creative Commons licensingRead More …

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Filed Under: Multimedia

Congo guinea pig count keeps rising

17 February, 2010 by (comments)

Mainstream international media interest in CIAT’s work to improve guinea pig production in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo continues today. The BBC’s Spanish language site BBC Mundo gives a great write up of the news report, originally posted on the CIAT blog on Monday. The story has now been publishedRead More …

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Filed Under: Africa, CIAT in the media, Regions