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Climate “hotspots” put hundreds of millions at risk

2 June, 2011 by (comments)

A five-year global climate change research program led by CIAT has just published a major report into the expected global warming “hotspots” – and the news is not good for farmers in the the tropics. The report, released today by the CGIAR’s Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS),Read More …

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

Launch of CGIAR climate change research program featured in New Agriculturist

7 January, 2011 by (comments)

The latest edition of online development magazine New Agriculturist features an article on the launch of the new CIAT-led and CGIAR-wide climate change research program, or CCAFS. The article focuses on the recent Two Degrees Up climate change photofilms, which highlight the impact of a two degree rise in temperatureRead More …

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Filed Under: CIAT in the media, Climate Change

COP16 to mark the launch of CIAT-led climate change program

18 November, 2010 by (comments)

With just 15 days to go before the official launch of the CGIAR’s largest climate change program to date, we’re putting the finishing touches on Two Degrees Up – collection of case studies documenting the challenge of climate change to small farmers in Colombia, Ghana and Kenya. Click to viewRead More …

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Filed Under: Climate Change

CIAT’s Andy Jarvis speaks to Mexican press

12 May, 2010 by (comments)

CIAT’s Andy Jarvis is quoted extensively in an article in Mexico City’s daily newspaper El Universal. The Decision and Policy Analysis Program leader, pictured above at CIAT’s Annual Program Review last week, was interviewed by journalists from the newspaper at the recent GCARD meeting in France. The resulting article, whichRead More …

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Filed Under: Latin America and the Caribbean