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International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) is a nonprofit, nongovernment research organization dedicated to alleviating hunger and poverty and preserving natural resources in developing countries. It is one of 16 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The main research topics are crop improvement; conservation, study, and use of biological diversity; pest and disease management; soil quality and production systems, as well as land management. The main products of this work are improved seeds, methods, and information. The web site provides project information, an overview of research tools (GIS, Biotech, etc.), a newsletter and a publication list.
Activities
- Research
Coordinated projects
- Fighting drought and aluminum toxicity: Integrating functional genomics, phenotypic screening and participatory evaluation with women and small-scale farmers to develop stress-resistant common bean and Brachiaria for the tropics
- Gene flow analysis for environmental safety in the Tropics
- Matching product quality, hillside environments and market demand for agricultural highvalue diversification - DAPA (Diversification Agriculture Project Alliance).
- More chicken and pork in the pot, and money in pocket: Improving forages for monogastric animals with low-income farmers
- New opportunities for hillside farmers: Matching product quality, environments and market demand for high-value agricultural products
- Spatial insights: Aerial imagery for site-specific agronomic management
- Understanding and catalyzing learning-selection processes of multi-purpose forage based technologies in Central-America with focus on dry season options and farmer-led seed systems
Contact
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
(CIAT)
Recta Cali-Palmira
A.A. 6713 Cali
Colombia
Colombia
Phone: +57 (2) 4450000
Fax: +57 (2) 4450073
Email: ciat(@)cgiar.org
