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News Release Archive by Theme

• About CIAT
• Farmer Participatory Research
• Food Crops
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• Global Warming
• Institutional Developments
• Sustainable Farming
• Technological Advances
• Partnerships

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News Release Archive by Theme

About CIAT

• Dr. Hawtin Continues as CIAT DG
  April 2008

• CIAT Appoints New Interim Director General
  September 2007

• Restructuring Research at CIAT to Better Address New Challenges
  March 2007

Farmer Participatory Research

• The Road to Peace for Rural Communities in Colombia
  February 1999

• Latin America's Farmer-researchers
  October 1998

• Tuning Up the Orchestra of Hillside Development
  October 1998

Food Crops

• US Patent Office Rejects US Company's Patent Protection for Bean Commonly Grown by Latin American Farmers
  May

• Research Examines Seed-Aid Effectiveness
  May

• Colombia Ships Seeds of Staple Food Crops to the
  Svalbard Global Seed Vault for Safeguarding
  January 2008

• Club del Moko: A Campaign to Save Plantain
  March 2005

• Visiting Scientist to Explore Benefits of Bean Research as Tool for Combating Poverty and Environmental Destruction
  September 1998

• Report Outlines Massive Growth and Latest Figures on Bean, Rice Production across Latin America
  September 1998

• Rice and Beans in Latin America: A Summary Report on the Economic Impact of Improved Varieties
  September 1998

• Improved Varieties of a Versatile Root Crop Link Rural People to Profitable Industries and Export Markets in Southeast Asia
  May 1997

• Science Centers Declare Victory Against Top Cassava Enemy, Protecting "Staff of Life" for World's Poor
  May 1997

• Cassava in Southeast Asia: From Hard Times to Modern Times
  March 1997

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• "Where Will This Crop Grow?" A Computer Program Can Now Tell Us: Homologue™ Was Created by CIAT Experts
  October 2006

• Information Tool Kit Will Help Improve Environmental Management in Central America
  December 2000

• Scientists Apply High-tech Tools in Emergency Planning for Rehabilitation of Agriculture in Honduras and Nicaragua
  December 1998

• Computerized Atlas Will Help Reduce Environmental Destruction in Latin America and the Caribbean
  May 1998

• Why an Environmental Atlas?
  May 1998

Global Warming

• African Grasses May Slow Global Warming While Boosting Food Production
  May 1998

• From Gas-guzzlers to Grass Grazers: What Is the Greenhouse Effect and How Is Human Activity Altering It?
  May 1998

Institutional Developments

• Colombia Ships Seeds of Staple Food Crops to the
  Svalbard Global Seed Vault for Safeguarding
  January 2008

• Canadian Anthropologist and Research Manager Chosen to Lead CIAT
  January 2001

• CIAT Challenges US Patent on Mexican Bean
  (RAFI news release)
  January 2001

• Colombia Renews Collaborative Agreement with CIAT
  August 1998

Sustainable Farming

• Farmers' Knowledge Meets Formal Science: A People-centered Strategy for Combating Poverty and Environmental Destruction in Tropical Hillsides
  October 1999

• Scientists & Farmers Are Revolutionizing Tropical Hillside Agriculture: Goals Are to Raise Incomes, Prevent Ecological Disasters
  October 1999

• In Face of Extreme Poverty Across Latin America, Sustainable Farming Offers Viable Alternatives to Narcotics Trade
  October 1998

Technological Advances

• Farms Will Now Produce Biofuels: Innovative Project Carried Out by CIAT to Empower Small Farmer
  January 2007

Partnerships

• Partnership with TTDI to Enhance Cassava Production and Farmer Livelihoods in Thailand
  May 2008

• The Rural Innovation Institute Foundation Will not Continue
  October 2007