Blogs
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...
Soil Health Assessment Training
From May 8-12, researchers and agronomists from the Clima-LoCa project and the Alliance gathered at our campus in Palmira, Colombia, to participate in a workshop that allowed them to learn the fundamental concepts related to soil health and its assessment. This...
From the great green war to cocoa peace
Some years ago I heard for the first time and without much detail about the conflicts for the control of the emerald mines that took place during several decades in western Boyacá; the so-called "green wars'' that add one more chapter to the long list of tragic events...
A team that cultivates innovations on traditional cocoa-growing land
Researchers, technicians, partners from different organizations and external advisors of the Clima-LoCa project traveled from different destinations to meet in Guayaquil, Ecuador, for the same purpose: to analyze the progress and results obtained so far by this...
Clima-LoCa in 2022
This year that is coming to an end marks the reactivation of a project that has brought with it several advances and results that we would like to share with you. Lets read the voices of some of the many collaborators and researchers who made it possible for the...