A chance meeting with one of CIAT’s “founding fathers”

2 May, 2011 by (comments)

From CIAT Director-General Ruben Echeverría: In October 1966, Dr. Lewis M. Roberts from the Rockefeller Foundation and Dr. Lowell S. Hardin from the Ford Foundation wrote “A Proposal for Creating an International Institute for Agricultural Research and Training”. A year later, the Government of Colombia, the Rockefeller Foundation, the FordRead More …

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Latest edition of CIAT’s e-newsletter

3 September, 2010 by (comments)

Read the e-newsletter Challenges & Innovations The current issue of CIAT’s e-newsletter starts with some thoughtful observations by CIAT’s Director General Ruben Echeverría on donor funding, alliances, and south-south technology exchanges, followed by a summary of the excellent outcomes of the recent visit by the Colombian Minister of Agriculture andRead More …

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