Short video clips of bean research-for-development in Machakos District in Kenya, following the bean value chain. We saw research which is developing the next generation of bean varieties, through to farmers eking a living out of their bean fields, f…
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Programmers and GIS experts are using images from satellites hundreds of kilometres above Earth to track deforestation in Latin America in near-real time.
Roots, Tubers and Bananas- working on “Flagship Products” towards Intermediate Development Outcomes
I had the opportunity to facilitate a meeting of representatives of the four Centers (CIP, CIAT, Bioversity, IITA) and other partners of the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) in CIAT (March 20- 22). This CRP has been in th…
The wild and weedy cousins of crops documented in the United States
“We always say that crop wild relatives are important and that they’re threatened…what this (new) study does is takes those general statements and puts some good evidence and documentation behind them.”

HarvestPlus: Mejores cultivos, mejor nutrición
HarvestPlus, el programa conjunto del CIAT y el Instituto Internacional de Investigación sobre Políticas Alimentarias (IFPRI) para desarrollar cultivos alimenticios de primera necesidad mejorados a nivel nutricional —o biofortificados— en África…
