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Documentary on hunger in the coffee lands released
The colleagues at After the Harvest recently uploaded their short documentary film, “After the Harvest: Fighting Hunger in the Coffee Lands” for public viewing. This movie is based on field research conducted by CIAT colleagues in Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
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- Publications – 2010
- Puesta en valor de los servicios ambientales proporcionados por los ecosistemas de la Sierra Peruana
- Mitigating change in climate relations: breeders and modelers of Africa unite for climate-smart crops
- Priorizando acciones de conservación frente al cambio climático en la cuenca del río Tuluá Morales del Valle del Cauca, Colombia
- Visiting Hot- & Adaptation-spots identified by DSSAT analysis for maize-beans production systems in Central America
The Decision and Policy Analysis Program (DAPA) believes strongly in the power of information for designing effective policies in terms of investments in agricultural development and natural resource conservation and management.Our goal is to contribute to improved decision-making across Latin America. We do this by providing novel and accurate information about agricultural systems and associated natural resources at all levels, from farm to continent.
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Feature Articles
Climate analogues tool released
Climate analogues have been unleashed on the world today with the publication of our working paper on the methodology, and an online interface to run the model. It’s already been picked up by a number of other websites, including Nature’s News Blog, Voice of America and SciDev.net. Developed in partnership between CCAFS, CIAT’s DAPA program,
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New crop wild relatives atlas available
Last week, the Atlas of Guatemalan crop wild relatives was officially presented at the “VIII Simposio Internacional de Recursos Genéticos para América Latina y el Caribe“ held in Quito, Ecuador. The Atlas was prepared for being used with Google Earth (download the file here), enabling users to explore the places and surrounding areas where the
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Terra-i: An eye on habitat change
The conversion of forests into agricultural and cattle ranching systems, emits important amounts of carbon to the atmosphere, increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases and thus, contributing to climate change. The loss of habitats in Latin America, as deforestation is an issue of concern for national governments, environmental organizations, scientists and citizens in general. This
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Threats to cassava production: potential pest distributions| Amenazas a la producción de yuca: distribución potencial de plagas
Last week a new paper was on-line published in the journal Food Security based on a study lead by the Decision and Policy Analysis Program (DAPA)’s researchers in collaboration with the Cassava Entomology area of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) . The study applies Ecological Niche Modeling (ENM) to highlight potential geographical shifts
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Most recent posts
Climate Change
Mapeo de la distribución potencial del cultivo de café y cacao a nivel mundial.
El programa DAPA del Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), realizó un convenio con el programa de servicios ecosistémicos y Gestión (ESM), del Instituto Internacional de análisis de sistemas aplicados (IIASA) con el objetivo de identificar el impacto económico que tiene el cultivo de café y cacao frente al cambio climático. El análisis tiene 3
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Markets
Documentary on hunger in the coffee lands released The colleagues at After the Harvest recently uploaded their short documentary film, “After the Harvest: Fighting Hunger in the Coffee Lands” for public viewing. This movie is based on field research conducted by CIAT colleagues in Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Ecosystem Services
Puesta en valor de los servicios ambientales proporcionados por los ecosistemas de la Sierra Peruana Durante la tercera semana de diciembre de 2011 se dio inicio oficial al estudio “Valoración económica de los beneficios y pérdidas derivadas de los servicios ambientales en los ecosistemas, y formulación del plan de acción para la puesta en valor del patrimonio natural en: Huancavelica, Ayacucho y Apurimac en el Perú”. Este estudio es adelantado
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Impact
Building more impact assessment capacity Guest post by Albert Alwang, CIAT-VT. Members from the Socio-economic and Impact Analysis unit of DAPA, will be participating in the workshop on “The Assessment
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Data
Mapeo de la distribución potencial del cultivo de café y cacao a nivel mundial.
El programa DAPA del Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), realizó un convenio con el programa de servicios ecosistémicos y Gestión (ESM), del Instituto Internacional de análisis de sistemas aplicados (IIASA) con el objetivo de identificar el impacto económico que tiene el cultivo de café y cacao frente al cambio climático. El análisis tiene 3
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