Next steps

Next steps
Hello there, The thesis was submitted last week, but the project is not finished yet. Next steps are to create an instrument that will help Ecohabitats Foundation and Association of Northwestern communal actions of Popayan (Community committee “local stakeholders”) for planning and decision making processes to out-scaling CSA. This week I had a few meetings in the ...

Annual Program Review – CIAT

Annual Program Review – CIAT
Hello there, Today I had the pleasure to listen to a few presentations from early career scientists and the beginning of new projects on the last day of the Annual Program Review. The morning started with 6-speed talks of 5 minute from early career scientists. One of them was from Lorna Born (MScCCAFS student 2016-2017)  about global ...

Thesis hand in!

Thesis hand in!
Hello there, Yesterday afternoon I submitted my final MScCCAFS Thesis! It is been a long journey with ups and downs, but proud of myself to reach this point. Next steps will be to prepare a presentation for the first week in September. Hope you enjoyed the journey with me! Laia

It is time to present results

It is time to present results
Hello there, Last Friday I had a meeting with Ecohabitats Foundation, Community leaders and Coffee Association (Agricod) at the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Cauca (CRC) in Popayán to present to them the results and have a discussion. The meeting was composed by : Luis Ortega (Ecohabitats) Molly (Internship Ecohabitats) Waldina Bermúdez (Cauca CSV farmer, she ...

Countdown

Countdown
Hello there, In two weeks time, I will submit my thesis. Two weeks to finish to write the thesis. I was seeing the 17th of August really far away and the countdown started! Next week, on Friday, I am going to meet Ecohabitats Foundation, the community leaders and the Coffee Association in Popayán. I will ...

Data news

Data news
Hello there, After a month of being surrounded and dreaming about numbers and more numbers in Excel, I can finally say that I finished calculating all the indicators! After a few hours facing a screen, it is always nice to go outside the office and see this green open space as you can see from ...

Hello, July!

Hello, July!
Hello there, Continuing on the post “It is DATA time!”, for the last weeks, I have been working (with Microsoft Excel) on the Cauca CSV surveys data. It is a long process before getting some results and starting to analyse them. Firstly, I reviewed the raw data. Each module (M0-M5) was reviewed using the different ...

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
WORLD DAY TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT To promote public awareness of international efforts to combat desertification, the United Nations (UN) designated June 17 as the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. The day is a unique moment to remind everyone the land degradation neutrality is achievable through problem-solving, strong community involvement and co-operation at all ...