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News Release Archive by Year

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• 1997

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

News Release Archive by Year

2009

• Cassava "accident" brings tolerance hope
  September

• Car fuelled by cassava is a world first
  August

• New legal decision against bean pirate
  July

• Social bio-refinery for poor communities inaugurated
  July

• Bean varieties released in Ecuador using CIAT materials and methodology
  June

• CIAT researcher wins international award
  May
  

• CIAT takes the lead to ease coffee-climate pressure
  April

• New shipment of seeds to the North Pole
  February

• New digital map of Africa's depleted soils to offer insights critical for boosting food production
  January

2008

• CIAT's new E-Newsletter
  August

• CIAT-led institutional Knowledge Sharing Project of the CGIAR delivers promising results
  June

• Rice growers will promote a "technological revolution" to confront the world's food crisis
  May

• Partnership with TTDI to enhance cassava production and farmer livelihoods in Thailand
  May

• US Patent Office rejects US company's patent protection for bean commonly grown by Latin American farmers
  May

• Research examines seed-aid effectiveness
  May
  

• Dr. Hawtin continues as CIAT DG
  April

• Colombia ships seeds of staple food crops to the
  Svalbard Global Seed Vault for safeguarding
  January

2007

• The Rural Innovation Institute Foundation will not continue
  October

• CIAT appoints new Interim Director General
  September

• Restructuring research at CIAT to better address new challenges
  March

• Farms will now produce biofuels: Innovative project carried out by CIAT to empower small farmer
  January

2006

• "Where will this crop grow?" A computer program can now tell us: Homologue™ was created by CIAT experts
  October

2005

• Club del moko: A campaign to save plantain
  March

2001

• Canadian anthropologist and research manager chosen to lead CIAT
  January

• CIAT challenges US patent on Mexican bean
  (RAFI news release)
  January

2000

• Information tool kit will help improve environmental management in Central America
  December

1999

• Farmers' knowledge meets formal science: A people-centered strategy for combating poverty and environmental destruction in tropical hillsides
  October

• Scientists & farmers are revolutionizing tropical hillside agriculture: Goals are to raise incomes, prevent ecological disasters
  October

• The road to peace for rural communities in Colombia
  February

1998

• Scientists apply high-tech tools in emergency planning for rehabilitation of agriculture in Honduras and Nicaragua
  December

• In face of extreme poverty across Latin America, sustainable farming offers viable alternatives to narcotics trade
  October

• Latin America's farmer-researchers
  October

• Tuning up the orchestra of hillside development
  October

• Rice and beans in Latin America: A summary report on the economic impact of improved varieties
  September

• Visiting Scientist to explore benefits of bean research as tool for combating poverty and environmental destruction
  September

• Colombia renews collaborative agreement with CIAT
  August

• African grasses may slow global warming while boosting food production
  May

• Computerized atlas will help reduce environmental destruction in Latin America and the Caribbean
  May

• From gas-guzzlers to grass grazers: What is the greenhouse effect and how is human activity altering it?
  May

• Why an environmental atlas?
  May

1997

• Improved varieties of a versatile root crop link rural people to profitable industries and export markets in Southeast Asia
  May

• Science centers declare victory against top cassava enemy, protecting "staff of life" for world's poor
  May

• Cassava in Southeast Asia: From hard times to modern times
  March