COP30 solidified the transition of aquatic foods from a niche topic to a core pillar of global climate action, with WorldFish and CGIAR now focused on helping nations turn their ambitious new climate plans (NDC 3.0) into funded, scalable realities for fisheries and aquaculture.
Agricultural R&D struggles to scale innovations without intentional private sector collaboration. This article shows how IITA uses evidence-based tools, licensing frameworks, and co-creation models to turn research outputs into market-ready solutions for farmers.
A one-day CIMMYT–CGIAR Scaling for Impact (S4I) workshop with BARI on 8 Dec 2025 brought together 25 early- and mid-career scientists (56% women) to strengthen creative and systems thinking for more innovative, inclusive, and scalable agricultural research. Through hands-on sessions on problem mapping, Scaling Scan, climate-adaptive systems thinking, and inclusive/policy-relevant research design, participants developed practical tools to move research beyond pilots toward real-world impact in Bangladesh’s agrifood systems.
In an effort to digitalize livestock research and knowledge dissemination, ILRI has developed a new AI-powered chatbot that provides instant, evidence-based answers to animal health questions.
The Evidence Briefer & Transfer Portal, at proof-of-concept stage, consolidate and synthesize market intelligence evidence into accessible formats such as short briefers at crop and country level using AI and an online evidence submission platform.
Breeding for Tomorrow transdisciplinary teams synthesized learnings from over 130 national stakeholder consultations and defined a Product Design Standard for breeding that follows best practices and is aligned with CGIAR 5 impact areas.
When researchers and communities come together to draw a map, something powerful happens. The lines, colors, and symbols sketched on paper become more than geographical references; they turn into shared narratives of place, memory, and change. This is the essence of social cartography; a participatory qualitative methodology increasingly used to understand and transform rural and agricultural systems.
Enable, the partnership coordination engine of CGIAR Breeding for Tomorrow Science Program, worked closely with the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) to strengthen bean breeding efforts in Ethiopia.