

Climate Resilience
The CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience, also known as ClimBeR, aims to transform the climate adaptation capacity of food and agricultural systems in low- and middle-income countries. Its goal is to tackle vulnerability to climate change at its roots and support countries as they adapt and build equitable and sustainable futures.
Highlights
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Transformative adaptation: Reorienting the climate response from climate-smart to climate-resilient
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RCMAS Climate +: Digitalization to save time, money, and de-risk smallholders in the Philippines
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Challenging the status quo : How bottom-up Disruptive Seeds can transform Guatemala's food systems
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Opinion
Local knowledge for global decision making: #weareindigenous
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Opinion
Helping communities help themselves: early warning systems help save lives
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Opinion
How CGIAR Will Help 30 Million Smallholder Farmers Adapt to Climate Change by 2030
Featured News & Events
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Transformative adaptation: Reorienting the climate response from climate-smart to climate-resilient
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience17.09.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Social inclusion
Agriculture is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and thus both a contributor to…
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RCMAS Climate +: Digitalization to save time, money, and de-risk smallholders in the Philippines
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience14.09.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
As smallholders continue to face the ever-increasing consequences of climate shocks and impacts whic…
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Challenging the status quo : How bottom-up Disruptive Seeds can transform Guatemala's food systems
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience08.09.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Read the blog post in Spanish here. In light of the current climate crisis, we…
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Local knowledge for global decision making: #weareindigenous
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience09.08.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
by Mary Ng’endo, CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience (ClimBeR) Social Equity team, and Mart…
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Helping communities help themselves: early warning systems help save lives
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience03.08.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
By Giriraj Amarnath (IWMI), Niranga Alahacoon (IWMI), Martina Mascarenhas (ClimBeR) Tea is one of Sr…
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Voices of Change: Plant indigenous drought-tolerant trees!
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience01.08.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
by Mary Ng’endo, CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience (ClimBeR) Social Equity team, and Nyan…
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Advancing Climate Security in the Mediterranean: Toward a Shared Agenda for Action
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience20.07.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
by Grazia Pacillo, Marina Mastrorillo , and Ibukun Taiwo (Climate Security FOCUS) On June 26,…
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Voices of Change: Use a rights-based approach!
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience19.07.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
by Mary Ng’endo, CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience (ClimBeR) Social Equity team, and Nyan…
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Voices of Change: Save seeds, plant indigenous crops!
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience14.07.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
by Mary Ng’endo, CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience (ClimBeR) Social Equity team, and Nyan…
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Voices of Change: Keep the Bees!!!
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience07.07.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
by Mary Ng’endo, CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience (ClimBeR) Social Equity team, and Nyan…
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Accelerating Climate Action Research and Innovation in Africa: 1.4 Billion People to Benefit from Empowerment of Continental Organizations
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience05.07.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
by Murat Sartas, Ph.D. CGIAR's Climate Resilience Initiative (ClimBeR) team participated in the ei…
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Voices of Change: Community stories of climate adaptation in Baringo, Kenya
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience28.06.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
by Mary Ng’endo, CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience (ClimBeR) Social Equity team, and Nyan…
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Climate security challenges in the Arab region: Salma Kadry's Historic Address at the UN Security Council
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience14.06.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
In a historic moment for CGIAR, Salma Kadry, a Climate, Peace, and Security Specialist at…
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Enabling Decision-makers with Localized, Policy-relevant Climate Evidence: CGIAR Launches the Climate Security Observatory (CSO) Platform
Evan Tan07.06.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
Climate is linked to conflict, acts as a multiplier, and exacerbates the risk of crisis…
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Innovating climate finance solutions for pastoral and farming communities in the Horn of Africa
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience25.01.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Photo: Pastoralists in Kenya (Kabir Dhanji/ILRI) By Pedro Chilambe; ClimBeR Climate finance and clim…
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What are people saying on Twitter about #ClimateSecurity? CGIAR's Climate Resilience Initiative tracks the conversation
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience25.01.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Image: Word clouds containing the 150 most frequent words on Twitter conversations about climate sec…
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Three decades after being displaced by conflict, Senegalese communities return to find the climate changed things, too
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience24.01.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Photo: Women in the agricultural areas in Casamance, Senegal Climate-driven environmental challenges…
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Typhoon Noru demonstrated the value of space tech at meeting of disaster-risk experts
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience25.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
By Giriraj Amarnath Zambia Lead, CGIAR’s Climate Resilience Initiative; leader of the Initiative…
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Food, finance and implementation are on the menu at COP 27
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience14.11.22-
Adaptation
The CGIAR Climate Resilience Initiative, ClimBeR, has a strong presence at this year’s global clim…
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Radical action is needed for the climate. This means transforming the way we do science
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience15.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Incremental change has not slowed the pace of the climate crisis. For researchers working with…
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G20 Indonesia 2022, Technical Workshop on Climate Change
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)19.08.22-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
As part of the Indonesian G20 Presidency, the Meeting of Agricultural Chief Scientists (MACS) of…
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To have impact, climate security actions require contextualized, harmonized and collaborative intelligence
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience11.07.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the last two decades, conflicts and wars have spread and intensified. All around the…
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Research activities
Partners
Building on the legacy of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), partnerships are essential to the success of the CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience. The Initiative engages 130 partners across six focus countries and globally on demand for the Initiative’s outputs, innovation and scaling. Partners include ministries that coordinate climate action; ministries of agriculture; national agricultural research and extension systems; meteorological departments; disaster management units; local, national and international NGOs; farmers’ organizations; United Nations organizations; other regional organizations and networks; insurance providers; micro-finance institutions and cooperatives; academia, training and research partners; and public-private partnerships.