Drawing on work in Ethiopia, Zambia and Mali, this post examines how evidence can help turn locally led adaptation from a widely endorsed principle into a practical, scalable approach to climate resilience.
Climate adaptation can reduce risk while deepening inequality. This post examines how land rights, gender, wealth and local power shape who benefits; and why locally led approaches are essential to making adaptation effective, inclusive and sustainable.
The newly released State of Food Insecurity and Nutrition in the World 2026 (SOFI 2026) rightly emphasizes that “Today’s global challenges compel us to urgently address hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition as multiple crises increasingly disrupt global agrifood systems.”
To support the Philippines’ Global Methane Pledge commitments, national agencies and partners—including IRRI and GGGI—recently convened to review methane Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) tools and align capacity-building efforts focused primarily on the high-emitting rice and waste sectors.
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced a NZ$3.39 million extension to the CGIAR Asian Mega-Deltas initiative, funding a 12-month push to strengthen climate resilience, food security, and agricultural productivity across key delta regions in Asia.
Before dawn breaks over Kenya's drylands, pastoralists have already made the day's most weighty decision: where to take their livestock. During normal times, this is usually an easy decision, however when dry periods approach, it stops being so straightforward.
'I realized that a healthy environment works like a jigsaw puzzle; fixing land degradation helps absorb climate carbon, which in turn improves rangelands regeneration and crop productivity, providing food for humans, livestock and wildlife and fights climate change.'
Researchers in the Indian Sundarbans are testing whether integrated mangrove aquaculture can restore degraded mangroves while sustaining shrimp farming, strengthening coastal resilience, supporting livelihoods and storing more carbon.