Climate change film shows Bangladesh on the frontline
This photofilm produced by the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED), in conjunction with Panos, is a telling account of Bangladesh’s struggle to overcome the threat of rising...
View ArticleNew videos bring agriculture and nutrition into focus
We recommend you take 3-and-a-half minutes to watch this new video from our friends at Farming First, about improving agriculture and nutrition. You’ll also see a few CIAT pictures from our Flickr page...
View ArticleCIAT’s first-ever video diary: Jarvis brings crop wild relatives in from the...
In the first-ever video diary for the CIAT blog, Andy Jarvis gives us an update from a chilly Kew Gardens in London, UK. Andy is at Kew for a warm-up meeting relating to CIAT’s role in a new USD50m...
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Two Degrees Up on the Oxfam blog
Our friends at Oxfam International have posted a piece about Two Degrees Up on their From Poverty to Power blog. The Two Degrees Up series of photofilms, produced by CIAT, was unveiled at the United...
View ArticleCoffee and climate change photofilm now in Spanish
Click to watch the Spanish version of Two Degrees Up – PART ONE: Colombia. The 6-minute photostory documents the experiences of smallholder coffee farmers in Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department,...
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CIAT Annual Report 2010 – now available
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share the CIAT Annual Report 2010 with you. This year’s theme “From the New World to the Whole World” provides examples of CIAT research results in Latin America and...
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254,863 Flickr hits – Thank you!
CIAT’s photo gallery on the picture sharing website Flickr has now received over a quarter-of-a-million hits. The landmark figure was reached last week, while I was deep in the Amazon Rainforest – one...
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Two Degrees Up video series – 10,000 online hits, and rising
If you still haven’t seen them, the recent series of Two Degrees Up climate change photofilms, released for the launch of the CGIAR’s Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security...
View ArticleGuinea Pigs in DRC and beyond
In this short clip from our Annual Program Review in Nairobi, Kenya, last week, CIAT forages scientist Brigitte Maass gives a quick overview of her work in Africa, and the potential of particular...
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CIAT takes the lead with peer-reviewed video first
A team of entomologists at CIAT is the first in the CGIAR to publish in the world’s only peer-reviewed video journal. Dr. Soroush Parsa and his team produced a 10-minute video demonstrating the...
View ArticleClimate-smart coffee in (more or less) two minutes
Meet Henk. He’s not just smart, he’s climate-smart. Plus, he knows a thing or two about coffee, and how farmers in Latin America and East Africa can protect their coffee crops from the expected impacts...
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Climate change: a blessing in disguise for India’s apple farmers?
If you’d like a glimpse of what successful climate change adaptation looks like, this short photofilm is a good place to start. Click here to view the video on YouTube. In the 1950s, apple production...
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Two Degrees Up climate change films published by Reuters AlertNet
The Two Degrees Up series of short films about the possible impact of climate change on smallholder agriculture has recently been published by Reuters AlertNet. The films, originally produced to...
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The Climate Reality Project – Colombian coffee on the frontline
It was probably only a matter of time before the names Andy Jarvis, Peter Laderach and Al Gore appeared in the same sentence. So it’s great to see that a recent documentary about climate change and...
View ArticleClimbing beans reach new heights in Rwanda
Already one of the most densely populated countries in the world, the United Nations predicts that Rwanda’s population of around 11 million people is set to nearly quadruple by the turn of the century....
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New video: Managing mealybugs in cassava
Across the world, cassava is grown for its edible, starchy tubers. In Asia, cassava has been free from major problems for a long time. But recently, the crop has been threatened by new pests and...
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Social media in Southeast Asia: new platforms for sharing
This post was first published on the CGIAR website. Social Media is a powerful way to disseminate information – personal or professional – with networks spanning the globe and connecting people with...
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Brainstorming with the media on climate change in Vietnam
The two-day media workshop brought journalists and researchers together to discuss climate change. Twenty-seven journalists from a broad range of media outlets in Vietnam attended a two-day seminar in...
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Women as drivers of positive change
In many developing countries, women play a major role in agricultural activity. They can be responsible for growing and selling crops and livestock, in addition to taking care of the household and all...
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New photo-film: mapping soil diversity in Tanzania
Without replacing soil nutrients, or managing soils on the steep slopes, Lushoto’s rich diversity will likely disappear. The second photo-film of a two-part series, “The Ground Beneath Your Feet,” is...
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