Consortium News Archive for October, 2012

Bean diversity at the CIAT gene bank. Regular consignments of seeds are sent for conservation at the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway

Seed banks great and small

October 10, 2012

Deep inside a frozen Arctic mountain about 600 miles from the North Pole lies a vault that contains within its…

Photo credit: D. Mowbray/CIMMYT

Recognizing and promoting farmers’ knowledge and rights: the policy challenges

October 5, 2012

Recent changes in CGIAR operations have led to a number of new policy challenges. This was one of the findings…

A gender transformative approach is at the core of the gender strategy being developed by the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems

Redressing gender disparities: a transformative approach to our research

October 1, 2012

The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) has developed its Gender Research in Development Strategy centered on a…