Mission
To reduce hunger and poverty, and improve human nutrition in the tropics through research aimed at increasing the eco-efficiency of agriculture.
People
CIAT’s staff includes about 200 scientists. Supported by a wide array of donors, the Center collaborates with hundreds of partners to conduct high-quality research and translate the results into development impact. A Board of Trustees provides oversight of CIAT’s research and financial management.
Values
- Shared organizational ethic
- We respect each other, our partners, and the people who benefit from our work. We act with honesty, integrity, transparency, and environmental responsibility in all of our joint endeavors.
- Learning through partnerships
- We work efficiently and pragmatically together and with partners. Considering our diversity to be a key asset, we adapt readily to change and strive to improve our performance through continuous learning.
- Innovation for impact
- We develop innovative solutions to important challenges in tropical agriculture, resulting in major benefits for the people who support, participate in, and profit from our work.
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Resources
Displaying 636 - 640 of 958A diagnostic study of agricultural land use in the Southwest Brazilian Amazon
Agronomy research in the Asian cassava network: Towards better production without soil degradation
Since 1987 cassava agronomy research has been conducted by scientists from national cassava programs in Asia in collaboration and with small financial assistance from the CIAT cassava program. This paper summarizes and pulls together the results obtained, mainly corresponding to the period of 1490 to 1993.
An evaluation of the accuracy of DEM-derived altitude and slope values
This project was set up to investigate the level of accuracy which can be expected for slope and altitude values derived from low-cost Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). Eight gridded DEMs were generated from digitized contour maps at a range of scales:1:10,000 1:25,000 1:100,000 1:200,000 - and using a range of contour intervals 25m, 50m and 100m. A Control DEM was then produced using large scale aerial photographs (1:28,000) which were registered for auto-extraction of z-values using Helava software and accuracy tested using 91 differentially measured GPS ground control points.
An ecoregional approach to enhancing agricultural research in tropical America
Assessing the impact of deforestation on slope stability withint the Ovejas watershed, Cauca, Colombia
