International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

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There is no universal model for successfully delivering climate-smart agriculture. But the AICCRA experience in Ethiopia shows how engaging changemakers can reveal effective, inclusive, and localized ways to make farming communities more resilient to climate change.

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Source: Phys.org (3 Mar 2020)

Survey tool can help farmers face challenges of climate change, food security, nutrition, farm productivity and social inclusion. 

In the media

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

Source: The Reporter (16 Nov 2019)

New platform will put resilience at the center of livelihoods in response to rising populations, growing food demand and ecological crisis.

Features

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

The 2019 Borlaug Dialogue explored solutions to feed the planet sustainably in the face of conflict and climate change.

Press releases

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

The project will develop maize varieties adapted to the country’s farming conditions and will promote sustainable intensification practices among farmers.

Features

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

As Zimbabwe’s child malnutrition rate peaks above the international threshold for emergency response, nutritious vitamin A orange maize gains ground on the national market.

News

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

A new zinc-enriched maize variety developed by CIMMYT was released in Colombia to help combat malnutrition in South America.

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CIMMYT joins global partnership to find sustainable solutions to agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean.