CIAT has sent its third consignment of seeds from its gene bank in Colombia, to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway.

CIAT is very excited to host a Latin American and Caribbean Knowledge Share Fair on May 25-27, followed by a meeting of the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) community (May 27 and 28).

An ambitious new project to record the experiences of thousands of smallholder farmers in Colombia to help establish optimum growing conditions for tropical fruits in the country, is to begin imminently, following an USD $1.6m grant from Asohofrucol (the Association of Fruit and Vegetable Growers in Colombia).

The President of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, congratulated CIAT for being recipient of the "The Exemplary Colombian Award", in recognition of the scientific research the Center carries out on behalf of the country, and has promised to visit us soon.

Pioneering new work by CIAT and its partners to improve guinea pig production could help tackle food insecurity in the conflict zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

El Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) and National Starch have signed a collaboration agreement to research and evaluate the properties of waxy cassava, with the aim to create new field of uses with an economic added value that will benefit cassava farmers.