Blogs
Workshop on Genetic Knowledge of Cocoa Clones
Within the framework of the Clima-LoCa and Rutas PDET projects, a workshop on genetic knowledge of cocoa clones was held on June 18 of 2024, with ten cocoa producers from different municipalities in the department of Putumayo. This meeting was held at the "El Bufeo"...
Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping: Strengthening Capabilities for Diagnosis and Data-Driven Decision Making
From the 27 to 31 of May, The Alliance of Bioversity & CIAT campus at the headquarters of the Americas hub in Palmira (Colombia), opened its doors to a group of 19 professionals from public and private organizations and universities from Colombia, Ecuador and...
Learning concepts about statistical analysis with Clima-LoCa!
From 12 to 15 February, we were immersed in a training on data analysis and experimental design at R Studio, offered within the framework of the objectives of the Clima-LoCa project. Participants from different universities and countries were encouraged to take part...
This is how we lived the annual workshop of The Clima-LoCa project
From the 19th to the 23rd of February was the Annual Workshop of The Clima-LoCa project (2024), an event that has taking place for four years and has been crucial to the planification and development of the project in recent years. The first workshop took place in...
Mirjam Pulleman: Navigating Clima-LoCa in 2023 and setting challenges for 2024
Another year is about to come to an end. We talk with Mirjam Pulleman, one of the leaders of the Clima-LoCa project. How does she characterize 2023? and, what were the highlights? “This third year of implementation of the Clima-LoCa project was a busy and exciting...
Clima-LoCa update on soil health
Soil health assessments in cacao farms in Colombia and Ecuador are ongoing in the context of the Clima-Loca project[1]! What do we measure? Chemical, physical and biological indicators are measured that capture multiple soil functions as affected by soil management...
Workshop: Good Laboratory Practices and Quality Control
Within the framework of the STDF and Clima-LoCa projects, the theoretical-practical workshop of Good Laboratory Practices and Quality Control was held. The workshop had several sessions distributed between Bogotá in Colombia, Guayaquil and Quito in Ecuador, during the...
Clima-LoCa Boosts Small-Scale Agriculture in Putumayo: The Transformation of Don Cupertino’s Farm, a Story to Be Told
Cupertino Enriquez Bravo is one of the farmers who highlighted the support provided by the project: "I think that the good results on my farm have been because I am always willing to let myself be helped, what the engineers recommend to me, that is what I do". Read...
Knowing some of the implementation activities of the genetics component
The use of cultivars or grafts that can provide a solution to the cadmium problem is one of the alternatives being evaluated in one of the components of the Clima-LoCa project. Thus, the genetics component is being implemented by regional and international...