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12 Current news of International Center for Tropical Agriculture - CIAT
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Wild, edible, and nutritious! Research and recipes reveal the benefits of regional Turkish plants
07-Oct-2022
Visit any of Türkiye’s regions and you will find diverse plants growing in uncultivated areas such as wetlands and woodlands: wild fennel, catbriers, golden thistle, and knotgrass, to name just a few. These plants have been the subject of ethnographic studies, generally for their medicinal ...
The priorities for food-security research under extreme events
23-Sep-2022
With so much today dictated by climate change, conflict and poor governance, the challenge of feeding everyone well is greater than ever. Researchers propose new lines of investigation to attain a food-secure future in the face of escalating challenges. Fixing hunger is as challenging as ever. ...
Envisioning net-zero food systems
14-Sep-2022
A new assessment of over 60 scenarios based on current low-emission practices shows that realizing net-zero food systems will require widescale adoption of new technologies in the next two decades and changes in meat and dairy consumption. A more diverse set of practices and innovative research, ...
How do quality seed systems impact food and nutrition security?
01-Sep-2022
Food and nutrition security is a key development indicator for children’s health. However, decades of global efforts to combat hunger are proving to be insufficient in the face of growing challenges (i.e., conflict, climate extremes, and economic shocks) that have been further aggravated by the ...
Study finds that agricultural diversity has a positive impact on food security
30-Aug-2022
Agricultural diversity can be an important driver of food security, but the magnitude of the contribution depends on the broader socio-economic and biophysical characteristics of the local farming system, according to a recently published paper from researchers including those from the Alliance ...
Foodomics: Exploring the biomolecules that will help us get to know our food
27-Jun-2022
Maya Rajasekharan, Senior Advisor, Strategic Program Development at the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), says that food is the single greatest determinant of human health and disease over the course of one’s life, and yet a ...
Measuring diversity from farm to fork
A new report evaluates 10 Mediterranean countries
19-May-2022
Why measure Mediterranean agrobiodiversity? What foods comes to your mind when you think about “The Mediterranean Diet”? For most people, the term evokes strong associations with fresh, minimally-processed ingredients – olive oil, fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains, followed by ...
New models needed for food system transformation
How agricultural scientists formulate research questions, and the need for new funding models for climate-smart agriculture.
24-Dec-2021
According to the paper titled Enacting theories of change for food systems transformation under climate change, published in Global Food Security, food systems are responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, and agricultural yields are at risk due to climate ...
Crop diversity is needed today for tomorrow’s food security and nutrition
Science can help mitigate, stem, and reverse loss of genetic diversity, for better productivity, resilience, and adaptive capacity in agriculture, a new study shows
22-Oct-2021
Although scientists have been ringing bells for more than 100 years about the decline of crop diversity in agriculture, questions about the magnitude, causes, and significance of this loss remain unanswered. A team of 15 scientists from a wide range of research centers and universities set out 18 ...
Do we need an IPCC for food?
06-Sep-2021
The first United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), scheduled for September, could be as historic to food system transformation as the Rio Earth Summit of 1992 was to climate change. Rio sparked the creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, which has brought scientists ...
