By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino Updated 21 December 2022: How can countries in the Global South develop their long-term low greenhouse gas emission and climate development strategies? At the Food and Agriculture Pavilion at COP 27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, Mitigate+ held a session that explored the potential for integrating food system approaches into those strategies, know as LT-LECRDS
By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino Dr. Augusto Castro-Nunez, leader of the Mitigate+ scaling work package, chats with me about the essence of low-emission food systems and the importance of context to ensure existing tools can facilitate transforming food systems into net zero systems. How should we think about low-emission food systems? When we think about food systems, we think about
By Loui Louis Verchot and Augusto Castro-Nuñez One narrative present among climate change discussions is that reducing agricultural greenhouse gas, or GHG, emissions would compromise food security and the availability of food in the global south. The narrative on this trade-off is rooted in the fact that the large portions of greenhouse gas emissions — the main culprit for global warming
WELLINGTON, 10 November 2022 – Today, the Climate, Food and Farming, Global Research Alliance Development Scholarships Programme (CLIFF-GRADS) announced 46 new awardees from low- and middle-income countries. The Round 5 CLIFF-GRADS fellows come from 18 countries from Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean. For six months starting early 2023, they will undertake applied research on quantifying and mitigating
The CGIAR Climate Resilience Initiative, ClimBeR, has a strong presence at this year’s global climate conference. The Initiative’s scientists are engaging with partners from farmers to government ministers to implement ClimBeR’s ambitious research-for-development agenda. Photo: CGIAR’s Ana María Loboguerrero speaks at COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Credit: Neil Palmer The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ’s call to
By Giriraj Amarnath Zambia Lead, CGIAR’s Climate Resilience Initiative; leader of the Initiative’s Governance for Resilience work area; scientist at International Water Management Institute (IWMI) When Typhoon Noru struck in September, the mobilization of satellite data and expert interpretation by CGIAR and partners helped reduce fatalities and facilitated disaster response to the deadly Category 4-equivalent storm. The timing of Typhoon
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,
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