REDD+ implementation was supposed to be “big, quick and cheap”. So far, it is not one big thing, but many smaller efforts implemented by many different donors and agencies, a collection of programmes that are slow to design and implement, and likel…
Archive for July, 2012
Reuters Alertnet features CCAFS work in Nepal
Originally from the CIAT blog, it’s great that Reuters Alertnet have helped us reach a wider audience with this piece about the CCAFS Farms of The future project, in Nepal’s Terai Plain.
Multi-scale participatory mapping: Where does which rainwater management strategy work?
Maksenit (Amhara) community members playing an adapted version of the ‘Happy Strategies’ Game. One of the sub-projects of the Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) – ‘Targeting and scaling out of rainwater management systems’ – aims to ma…
East Africa – Roots, tubers, bananas…and some sunflowers
Work for the Roots, Tubers and Bananas Research Program of the CGIAR, in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
CIAT “Rambo Root” cassava research featured in South African press
CIAT’s “Rambo Root” study, which established the importance of cassava as a climate change survivor, has just been featured in South Africa’s The Southern Times newspaper.