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Two forms of critical AI literacy and why they matter for farming communities
Imagine two scenarios. In the first, an existing AI chatbot is integrated into a mobile agricultural extension app. Farmers ask questions and receive instant responses. In the second, something more ambitious occurs: a custom chatbot is built from the ground up using local soil data, climate patterns, and indigenous knowledge.
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Connecting the dots: Turning evidence into action for finger millet and amaranth
In Kisumu, stakeholders convened by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT explored how stronger coordination across finger millet and amaranth value chains can improve nutrition, resilience, and livelihoods in Kenya.
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Surviving drought with better data: Ethiopian pastoralists use a digital monitoring system to avoid crisis
Can better data help pastoralists stay ahead of drought? In Ethiopia’s rangelands, a digital monitoring system is helping communities, researchers, and local authorities track water and pasture conditions before crisis strikes.
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Photo with a story contest - Agrobiodiversity as roots of resilience
Agrobiodiversity - the variety of animals, plants, and microbes used for food and agriculture (FAO definition, 1999) is essential for food production, food security, and resilient food systems. Yet, it is difficult to capture: not only because it is dynamic and context-specific, but because data alone cannot tell the whole story.
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Sustainable cattle ranching transforming Colombia’s Orinoquía region
Colombia’s Orinoquía region, one of the country’s areas with the greatest productive potential, is proving that it is possible to produce more beef with a lower environmental impact. In the department of Vichada, Hacienda San José, with the support of the Tropical Forages Program of the Alianza Bioversity y CIAT, transformed a traditional cattle production system into a sustainable model that now increases productivity, reduces emissions, and strengthens resilience to climate change.
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3 school lunches decisions that can benefit future generations
School meals can deliver benefits for health, livelihoods, and the environment. This can be accomplished by procurement decisions that diversify the ingredients, source from nearby, and engage communities and coalitions.
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Colombian breakthrough in sustainable livestock farming: pioneering study estimates carbon emissions from bovine genetics
Scientists from the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), together with Hacienda San José (HSJ) in the department of Vichada, developed a pioneering methodology to estimate greenhouse gas emissions associated with bovine genetic resources—a component that had so far remained invisible in livestock carbon footprint analyses.