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by Nyang’ori Ohenjo and Amina Yusuf Maalim, Centre for Minority Rights Development (CEMIRIDE) Kibet Kipsang is a youth activist and beekeeper. He comes from an indigenous community of forest-dwellers from Kenya known as the Ogiek. Under the pretext of environmental destruction, his community was forcefully evicted from their ancestral lands in Eldama Ravine by the Kenyan authorities. They lost their

Authors: Frans Schapendonk and Tina Jaskolski, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Climate change is straining water supplies and heightening community tensions. Evidence shows that when water scarcity rises within certain contexts, the risk of conflict increases. The Pacific Institute’s Water Conflict Chronology has, for example, identified 184 recorded instances of water-based conflict in north and sub-Saharan Africa since 2020,

To date, more than 20 organizations are registered as support providers to implement non-market approaches, NMAs for short, under Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement. NMAs, in simple terms, constitute mechanisms that allow parties and non-parties to the agreement to collaborate in achieving nationally determined contributions, or NDCs, outside of carbon markets. Those mechanisms serve as tools for mitigating and

Members of the CGIAR Climate Security Team in Southern Africa attended the 2025 NUST-WFP National Symposium in Zimbabwe, themed “Building Resilient Communities for Sustainable Futures.”. The symposium brought together officials from various government ministries, academia, development partners, and civil society organisations.   The symposium was officially opened by the Honourable Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development,

Given that a significant population of Ethiopia relies on subsistence agriculture, climate impacts are manifesting in various forms ranging from food insecurity and water scarcity emanating from prolonged droughts, climate induced displacement and migration. Agriculture accounts for between 40 –50% of Ethiopia’s gross domestic product (GDP). Increased competition over scarce resources has intensified such as pastoralist clashes over grazing land.

This year, CGIAR Climate Security has deepened the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT’s commitment to using its climate science for good by joining the Global Initiative for Information Integrity about Climate Change. A collaboration between the Brazilian Government, the UN Secretariat and UNESCO, the initiative was launched in 2024 with the purpose of bringing together countries, international organizations, and

As the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 62nd Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) negotiations (SB62) convene in Bonn in June 2025, CGIAR is gearing up to advocate that food and agriculture are front and center in global climate policy discussions. These mid-year talks set the stage for outcomes

The 7th meeting of The Glasgow Committee on Non-Market Approach (GCNMA) is to take place between 16 June and 26 June 2025 during the 62nd meeting of the UN Climate Convention Subsidiary Bodies (SB) in Bonn. The decisions of this meeting will determine the future of the implementation of Article 6.8 non-market-based approaches (NMAs) under the Paris Agreement which has