| CIAT's research on key crops (cassava,
beans, tropical forages, and rice) covers most of tropical
America. For three of these, we also have global responsibilities,
as described below:
Common
bean: CIAT has a sizable contingent of scientists working on beans in eastern,
central, and southern Africa. Cassava: The Center has staff based in Asia
and serves sub-Saharan Africa through our Nigeria-based sister center, the International
Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).
Tropical forages: Outside Latin America, our work is focused
mainly on upland areas of Southeast Asia.
CIAT's research on major agroecosystems is focused mainly
on tropical American hillsides, forest margins, and savannas.
But we are rapidly extending significant components of this
work—for example, on soils and production systems, agroenterprise
development, and land use—to midaltitude areas of eastern
Africa and upland environments of Southeast Asia.
Visit our Africa
and Asia
Web sites.
Feel free to contact our scientists at CIAT offices around
the world.
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