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Boeng Sneh Lake in Ba Phnom, Prey Veng, Cambodia has reached a major milestone in sustainable water and fisheries management. In late 2025, the District Technical Working Group (DTWG) secured Provincial Department of Water Resources and Meteorology (PDoWRAM) funding to replace the lake’s deteriorated water gate—critical infrastructure for regulating flows, reducing dry-season shortages and wet-season overflow, and easing conflicts between farmers and fishers. Building on inclusive, evidence-based planning and community consultations that boosted lake water retention by 28% in 2024–25, the upgrade signals how local coordination can unlock real government investment and strengthen climate resilience and biodiversity recovery.

Poor diets are now the leading global risk factor for chronic disease—and in India, unhealthy diets account for an estimated 56% of the total disease burden. A new policy note from IFPRI, CGIAR’s TAFSSA initiative, and MSSRF unpacks what’s driving India’s cereal-heavy, increasingly ultra-processed diets, and lays out practical, evidence-based actions to shift the food environment—such as front-of-pack labelling, smarter marketing restrictions, nutrition education, and more nutrition-sensitive safety nets like ICDS and PM-POSHAN. This blog was prepared under CGIAR’s Scaling for Impact (S4I) and Better Diets and Nutrition Science programs.