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 …
CIAT takes the lead with peer-reviewed video first
22 June, 2011 by (comments)Filed Under: Latin America and the Caribbean, Multimedia, Regions
Climate-smart crops get to the root of the problem
7 January, 2011 by (comments)New climate-hardy beans that produce good yields in drought conditions and poor soils go, quite literally, to the root of the problem. The new bean lines developed by CIAT and its partners are resistant to aluminium toxicity and drought, two major causes of crop failure in acid soils during timesRead More …
Filed Under: Beans, Crops
Voice of America reveals the secrets of CIAT “supergrass”
2 November, 2010 by (comments)CIAT scientists feature in a new documentary about the environmental benefits of brachiaria, produced by US broadcaster Voice of America. Brachiaria – a nutritious forage grass – can drastically reduce the environmental impact of livestock production by inhibiting nitrification, the process by which soil nitrogen is converted into the potentRead More …
Filed Under: CIAT in the media, Crops, Latin America and the Caribbean, Regions, Tropical Forages
CIAT forages featured in New Agriculturist
8 July, 2010 by (comments)CIAT’s pioneering research into the forage grass brachiaria is featured in the latest edition of the DFID-funded online development magazine New Agriculturist. The article looks at brachiaria’s powerful nitrification inhibition capacity, which could help to significantly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production and improve the eco-efficient use ofRead More …
Filed Under: CIAT in the media, Crops, Tropical Forages
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