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Outdated assumptions around gender continue to hinder effective and fair policymaking and action for climate mitigation and adaptation, a new study published in Nature Climate Change has found.   Gender—alongside other identities like race, class and age—has a powerful influence on people’s experience of, and resilience to, climate change, said the lead author of the study Dr. Jacqueline Lau, a post-doctoral research fellow working

Already suffering from climate disasters and persistent floods, Bangladesh’s coastal communities were sorely impacted by the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. Lockdown restrictions halted fishing activities, which are the main source of income, nutrition, and livelihoods in many rural areas. Capacity development in financial management and alternative livelihoods through formal training delivered by WorldFish’s USAID-funded ECOFISH II project is empowering

BY DALIA ELSABBAGH, SIKANDRA KURDI AND MANFRED WIEBELT The day-to-day hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic are often compared to life during wartime. But Yemenis have it far worse: They are experiencing a pandemic and a war simultaneously. Before 2020, Yemen’s ongoing civil war had cut GDP almost by half; since then COVID-19 has further decimated the economy. Dalia Elsabbagh, Sikandra Kurdi,

Moved by the need to create an active community of research around agricultural innovations, SPIA recently awarded small grants to 14 early-career researchers working in Ethiopia. Taking stock of efforts for institutionalizing the collection of adoption data at the country level, grantees have started working on some of the puzzling questions raised by the Ethiopian synthesis report. Each grantee has been assigned a

The impacts of COVID-19 on our global food system have affected the food security and nutritional wellbeing of millions of people worldwide, with market closures, supply disruptions and losses in income and employment. Understanding the extent and nature of these impacts will be critical to building resilience to future shocks, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. CGIAR researchers have conducted

WorldFish has announced a new, restructured leadership team to guide the implementation of its 2030 Research and Innovation Strategy: Aquatic Foods for Healthy People and Planet, which sets a pathway to end hunger and advance the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 through the transformation of food, land and water systems… Read the rest

Global thought leader, philanthropist and one of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and CGIAR’s most vocal and generous supporters, Bill Gates, wrote a book about climate change and is now taking it around the world on a virtual book tour to share a message of urgency and hope. With How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Gates sets

Nephew of a dairy entrepreneur near Nairobi, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Georgina Smith). JIMMY SMITH, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), made a slide presentation at a half-day webinar on ‘The place of science in the COVID-19 story’, held on 18 Dec 2020. The webinar brought together leaders of research organizations in the health, agriculture, livestock, public sector,