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 861 - 865 of 958Pasture and animal production in Amazonia
Recursos de tierras, suelos y su manejo en la región amazónica: Informe acerca del estado de conocimientos
Soils and the production of cassava in the Llanos Orientales of Colombia
Soil microbiology
Se describen los resultados obtenidos durante 1981 por la seccion de Microbiologia del Suelo del Programa de Pastos Tropicales del CIAT, cuyos objetivos especificos son: 1) seleccionar leguminosas forrajeras promisorias que no requieren inoculacion; 2) seleccionar cepas de Rhizobium para leguminosas que si necesitan inoculacion; y 3) evaluar el efecto de las tecnicas de inoculacion y practicas de manejo de pastos en la nodulacion y fijacion de N en el campo. Se presentan los resultados de 1) expt.
Energy cost of biological nitrogen fixation
Biological nitrogen (N2) fixation in both free-living and symbiotic organisms is an energy-requiring process dependent upon a supply of carbon and energy. In this paper the energy costs for N2 fixation and nodule respiration in symbiotic systems are compared with those of free-living N2-fixing systems, with the theoretical energy requierement for N2 fixation, and with the cost of utilization of combined N.