Despite the massive upheavals in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, deforestation globally proceeded more or less as expected from the trends established over the last 15 years, according to a recent study from researchers at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT. In the paper “Has global deforestation accelerated due to the COVID-19 pandemic?” published in mid-November 2022, the
Researchers are showing that providing healthier, locally-grown and climate-adapted food to school meal programs can benefit children, farmers and the climate. By: Andrew Wight According to UNICEF, school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic brought a decade’s growth in school feeding programmes to a dramatic halt, leaving about 370 million school children without access to their one reliable meal a day.
Climate change can manifest in different ways: stronger tropical droughts, extreme droughts, warmer climates and highly unpredictable rainfall patterns. All these endanger the availability of food, which in turn could increase conflict over resources, which can turn violent in the absence of spaces for dialogues and negotiations to transform conflict by peaceful means. Violent conflict affects livelihoods and diminishes the
CGIAR convened key players to engage in an open conversation about technological entrepreneurship in Uzbekistan. Tashkent (Uzbekistan), 2 December 2022 – On 1 December 2022, CGIAR centers ICARDA, IFPRI, IWMI, and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT with the support of the CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform, and in collaboration with StartupFactory hosted ‘The Consultation Workshop: Deep Diving
By Kalkidan Ayele Mulatu; Degefie Tibebe; Paula Andrea Paz Garcia; Getachew Tesfaye Ayehu Ethiopia’s Southwestern forests are core of the country’s forest and biodiversity resource, hosting four out of five UNESCO designated biosphere reserves in Ethiopia. However, human induced activities, such as both small scale and large-scale agricultural expansion, selective logging, settlements, and coffee plantation have exerted pressure on these
By Zenebe Adimassu, Degefie Tibebe, Lulseged Tamene and Wuletawu Abera Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach for transforming and reorienting agricultural systems to increase food security, enhance adaptation and reduce emission under the new realities of climate change. Mainstreaming through training and experience sharing is an effort to strengthen the capacity and capability of stakeholders for the effectiveness of CSA investments
Speech Delivered By: Juan Lucas Restrepo on behalf of CGIAR Event: UN Biodiversity Conference, COP15, High Level Segment Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Colleagues, A large part of the scientific community expects the biodiversity crisis to be as severe a threat as climate change. One million of the planet’s 8 million species on Earth are threatened with extinction. As agriculture and food production covers
Key takeaways on the outcomes of COP27 from the Accelerate for Impact Platform: A spotlight on multi-stakeholder partnerships, youth-led innovation, and more. This year’s Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) in Egypt counted more than 45,000 participants from governments, research and academia, civil society, Indigenous Peoples, private sector, and finance who