Colombia’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Juan Camilo Restrepo, highlighted the scientific expertise of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in the country’s well-drained savannas or altillanura, located in the Orinoquía region, indicating that this will prove highly useful to recover this immense region working together with other national entities.

In the start of a carefully crafted emergency campaign to thwart a pest outbreak that is wreaking havoc on Thailand's vital cassava production, agricultural researchers will release a quarter of a million parasitic wasps in the northeastern part of the country.

The PRGA Program is organizing an Action Workshop entitled: “Repositioning Gender-Responsive Participatory Research in Times of Change” between June 16-18, 2010 in Cali, Colombia, at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).

We are pleased to invite you to attend and participate in the seminar on “Biodiversity, Biotrade, and Sustainable Development”, which will be held on Friday, 21 May, in the Kellogg Auditorium at CIAT headquarters in Palmira, Valle del Cauca.

An innovative Knowledge Share Fair in the field of agricultural research and development and food security for Latin America and the Caribbean will be held at the headquarters of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Palmira from May 25 to 27, 2010.

One of the Center's biggest stories in recent weeks has been our work to improve guinea pig production in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Also, new climbing bean varieties developed by CIAT and its partners have been released in Rwanda, promising higher yields in a country fast running out of agricultural land.