Colombia
Improving diet through nutritious maize in Colombia
Innovations
A field day was organized at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture to show the advances of biofortified maize in Colombia.
Donors push for sustainable agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean
Capacity development
CIMMYT joins global partnership to find sustainable solutions to agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean.
New technologies to increase coffee-maize system profitability
Capacity development
To demostrate the advances of the project “Increasing the profitability of maize-coffee systems” conducted by CIMMYT in Colombia over the past 10 years in collaboration with the National Federation of Colombian Coffee Producers (FEDERECAFE, Spanish acronym), two field days were held at the Paraguaycito–Quindío (29 April) and La Catalina–Risaralda (7 May) Experiment Stations belonging to CENICAFE, FEDERECAFE’s research unit. At these events, attended by 158 representatives of the Local Coffee Growers’ Committees and the National Federation of Cereal Growers (FENALCE, Spanish acronym), the latest advances in the areas of climate change, agronomy and genetic improvement were presented.*
Maize protects Colombian coffee from climate change
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Preliminary results have shown that a maize-coffee cropping system acts like a huge atmospheric carbon sink, capturing up to 60 times more carbon than a coffee-bean system during one cycle of the associated temporary bean crop. In addition, maize creates a more adequate microclimate for coffee’s growth and development because it reduces air temperature, helps to maintain soil moisture and decreases daytime-nighttime soil temperature fluctuations. This has a buffer effect that benefits soil biochemical processes and improves crop productivity.
CIAT and CIMMYT complete genetic analysis and plant breeding course in Colombia
Capacity development
AIP-maize establishes public-private variety evaluation network in Pakistan
Nutrition, health and food security