News Overview

Kenya faces significant economic and food security risks from overlapping El Niño impacts and fuel and fertilizer price shocks associated with the war in Iran, a model shows.

At the UN General Assembly in New York, stakeholders advance on turning fragmented hydrological data into faster, shared decisions across river basins.

Regional cooperation, community-generated data, and insurance-linked services can help protect livestock and pastoral livelihoods before climate shocks become crises.

Researchers from the Alliance and KALRO-Coffee Research Institute met on 11 September 2026 to explore how the AI-enabled mobile app Croppie could support Kenya’s coffee sector through smartphone-based yield estimation and improved farm decision-making, and to assess the needs and pathways for local adaptation of the technology.

A regional field exchange at Nam Cuong Cooperative in Vietnam brought together Asian research partners to explore low-emission rice production, rice-straw composting, and sustainable potato farming, fostering shared learning on resilient, circular farming systems.

Smart Valleys combines local knowledge with technical planning to improve water control in West African inland valleys. A new twelve-step framework puts farmers and other valley users at the centre of decisions on design, governance and benefit-sharing.