UK newspaper The Guardian has just run a 10-picture feature on the successful work of the Rwanda Agriculture Board, CIAT…
Archive for April, 2012
You can make a difference: By pursuing a science-for-development career at CIAT!
You can make a difference: By pursuing a science-for-development career at CIAT. Closing date for applications: 15 June 2012.
What defines quality of life?
Improving quality of life (QoL) is one of the main goals of many public policies. A useful tool to measure QoL needs to get a good balance between indicators guided by theories (top-down approach) and indicators defined by local people (bottom-up appro…
Social learning across the life cycle
Accounting for age-dependent patterns of knowledge transmission is critical for understanding cultural evolution in age-structured populations. Cultural evolution theory predicts which social learning biases we expect people to use, but much less often when—during a person’s life cycle— different social learning biases will be used. By measuring knowledge and skill
Global Rice Partnership
Pictures from Days 1 and 2 of the Global Rice Partnership conference at CIAT’s headquarters in Colombia.