By Amahnui George Amenchwi, Wattel Cor and Augusto Castro Nunez The global food system is at a crossroads, facing the challenge of feeding a growing population while mitigating climate change. Scaling solutions for food system transformation is crucial to address the urgent challenges of climate change, food security, and sustainability. Finance is an essential ingredient of any scaling strategy for
Achieving gender equality is now, more urgent than ever as today’s multiple crises from climate change to global pandemics, to conflicts further threaten those most vulnerable. With a staggering 360 billion USD needed to achieve gender equality by 2030, according to UN Women, this year’s resounding call for International Women’s Day is “Invest in women: Accelerate progress.” CGIAR, through its
By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino A project promoting biodiversity conservation, climate mitigation and peacebuilding in Colombia which the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT has supported in structuring is now eligible for funding under one of the government’s tax credit programs targeting conflict-affected areas. This development comes ahead of the 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on
By Giriraj Amarnath and Martina Mascarenhas, CGIAR Research Initiative on Climate Resilience (ClimBeR) As the climate crisis gathers momentum and puts greater pressure on low- and middle-income countries, nations must learn and adapt. Countries must develop evidence-based, cross-sectoral adaptation plans and policies – including those required to fulfill the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process of the United Nations Framework Convention
By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino CGIAR has proposed harnessing non-market approaches “to accelerate action at scale for climate-resilient low emissions food systems and sustainable agricultural consumption and production” in response to a call for inputs to the next meeting of the Glasgow Committee on Non-Market Approaches. The subject of Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement, non-market approaches — or NMAs
JOINT PRESS RELEASE Lusaka, April 19, 2024: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and CGIAR, have renewed their partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), to strengthen food and nutrition security in Zambia as the country grapples with
By Marco Nilgen One of our research project’s main objectives is to unlock the transformative potential of Citizens’ Juries (CJs) on our journey to more sustainable food systems. On the individual and group level, i.e., among the participants of the juries themselves, this is supposed to be achieved through the facilitation of a creative and integrated decision-making process with a
By Elena García Conejero and Marco Nilgen While our planned research in Colombia aims to contribute to a more thorough understanding of the dynamics within citizens’ juries, a key component at the foundation of our project is, of course, to understand the country’s history of implementing bottom-up public participation processes, particularly in the context of food-system policies. In the wake