The first workshop on the Regional Seed Systems Training Initiative will be held on 23 and 24 March 2011 at CIAT in Palmira, Colombia. Its goal is to determine training plans and themes for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

Disease-tolerant cassava variety just released in Nigeria highlights the importance of conserving cassava germplasm from Latin America for scientific research in Africa.

World’s Top Cassava Researchers met to discuss the impact of climate changes on one of the world’s most important security food crops: cassava, a root crop that serves as the third most important source of calories in the tropics, consumed by over 700 million people on a daily basis in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Mr Juan Camilo Restrepo formalized, in Palmira, a framework agreement between this Ministry, CIAT, and the Colombian Corporation of Agricultural Research (Corpoica, its Spanish acronym).

Urgent Action Needed to Help Poor People Adapt to Climate Shifts that have Ominous Implications for Africa and Asia, Say Leaders of New Program.

Scientist Daniel Debouck of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) received the 2010 Frank N. Meyer Memorial Medal for Plant Genetic Resources, which is granted by the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), for his untiring work to collect and conserve crop plant diversity.

New Study documents earthquake’s immediate impacts on farmers as well as chronic problems in agriculture that could slow economic recovery.