Universities play a crucial role in educating the next generation about climate change. However, they face significant challenges in creating curricula that address growing challenges such as climate change, including how to develop and deliver these courses effectively. The Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project is collaborating with Kenyan universities to increase the coverage of climate
El Niño is a natural phenomenon where rising temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, low atmospheric pressure and weakening of the winds; bringing drier, hotter conditions to Latin America. The El Niño event that began in June 2023 peaked at 2 degrees celsius above average sea surface temperature, making it one of the five strongest El Nino events ever. Over
ICTforAg 2024 was an annual convening over May 28-30 in Washington D.C., Nairobi, Texcoco, Los Banos, New Delhi, and online; organized by CGIAR’s Initiative on Digital Innovation, DAI, and DevGlobal with the support of United States Agency for International Development; Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative; The Rural Development Administration of the Government of
A collaborative approach to climate, peace, and security The relationship between climate change and conflict is often described as a casual loop or a vicious cycle, where the two compound to drive vulnerability. Indeed, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region vividly exemplifies how climate change threatens stability and how instability undermines the State’s and vulnerable communities’ ability to
On a global level, rural women face disproportionately high barriers to secure land tenure. Lack of access to and control over land and the necessary resources to use it productively pose significant hurdles to rural women’s empowerment and livelihoods. Many factors limit women’s land rights, including discriminatory policies and socio-cultural norms that favour men as landholders and heirs. To address
The submission led to an invitation from the UNFCCC to speak and present the example we noted in the submission less than three months later, at the in-session workshop on non-market approaches at the 2024 June UN Climate Meetings, otherwise known as SB 60, in Bonn, Germany. Non-market approaches (NMAs for short), are among the mechanisms referred to in the
Experience the groundbreaking insights in the latest Annual Report of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, spotlighting 2023, the hottest year on record, where the climate crisis and conflict disrupted global food systems, heightening risks for vulnerable communities. This underscores the urgent need for resilient, transformative food systems that can adapt and thrive amidst such challenges. Discover how the
The online Demo Day showcased the achievements of the 10 innovation teams who successfully graduated from the initiative’s comprehensive acceleration program, hailing from Uzbekistan, India, Tanzania, Poland, and Egypt. In addition, the event offered insights into Uzbekistan’s innovation ecosystem via welcome remarks from project partners, a keynote address from Jamshid Abduzuxurov, Agriculture Production Department Head at the Ministry of Agriculture