This blogpost explains how CGIAR Climate Action research helped shape Colombia’s new deforestation-free livestock law, strengthening traceability, recognizing zero-deforestation agreements, linking environmental standards with monitoring systems, and creating financing pathways to support sustainable livestock production and implementation nationwide in practice.
The August 10 earthquake in Colombia affected urban and rural communities across Chocó, Valle del Cauca, Risaralda, Caldas, and Quindío. As humanitarian efforts address the most urgent needs, an equally important phase is beginning: rebuilding economies and livelihoods. That means helping people, communities, and food systems recover, build new strengths, and keep functioning with tools that make them less vulnerable to future extreme events. From emergency to resilience. Part one.
An internship for six students highlights the reach of an educational partnership that has engaged nearly three thousand young people and teachers from public schools.
In early April, policymakers, researchers, and practitioners from across Latin America and the Caribbean gathered in Panama for the follow-up to the United Nations Food Systems Summit. The mood was, in many ways, encouraging: countries are moving forward.
A coffee-farming family in the mountains of Honduras has probably never heard of the Chicago exchange. Even so, what their harvest is worth and what their fertilizer costs are decided, to a considerable extent, over there, somewhere between the grain benchmark, the dollar and the oil curve. Those forces arrive at the farm gate unannounced.
Carbon credits can supplement (but not fund) Colombia’s cacao agroforestry transition. Research shows farmers need upfront grants, affordable credit and other support to bridge years of costs before cacao, timber and carbon revenues materialise.
Livestock systems are central to global development. They support the livelihoods of more than one billion people, most of them in low- and middle-income countries, while providing essential nutrition and income. Yet they also contribute significantly to climate change, accounting for roughly one-fifth of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, largely from methane.