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Colombia’s Orinoquía region, one of the country’s areas with the greatest productive potential, is proving that it is possible to produce more beef with a lower environmental impact. In the department of Vichada, Hacienda San José, with the support of the Tropical Forages Program of the Alianza Bioversity y CIAT, transformed a traditional cattle production system into a sustainable model that now increases productivity, reduces emissions, and strengthens resilience to climate change.

A consultation workshop in Vietnam highlighted how digitalizing agricultural mechanization and deploying suitability maps can optimize machinery investment, connect farmers with service providers, and build a unified database to drive the Mekong Delta’s low-emission, modern, and sustainable rice production goals.

Communities and countries are banding together to protect local agrobiodiversity, delivering environmental, health, and economic benefits that have far-reaching consequences.

Agricultural authorities and international research organizations (including IRRI and CIP) convened a specialized workshop in Can Tho City to assess pathways for scaling precision nutrient management in the Mekong Delta. The event focused on addressing technological bottlenecks, introducing digital readiness tools, and fostering a synchronized "Four Pillars" collaboration to transition the Vietnamese rice industry toward a climate-resilient future.

A new CGIAR-supported paper argues that agroecology can move beyond pilots when knowledge, finance, policy and service systems work together.

CGIAR’s AI Hub transforms decades of cutting-edge agricultural research into practical AI products, placing them directly in the hands of smallholder farmers, policymakers, and researchers.

The global landscape of agricultural risk has been changing dramatically. More frequent and intense climate and economic shocks have become the norm. Over the past 30 years, disasters have caused an estimated $3.8 trillion in crop and livestock losses, or about 5% of global GDP per year (FAO, 2023).

Agricultural advisory services are increasingly adopting generative AI (gen AI) systems, including tools based on large language models (LLMs) such as chatbots, to provide farmers with tailored information on everything from how to manage pests to changes in commodity prices.