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By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino   Over the last four years, researchers from the Alliance of Bioversity International and its partners under a project funded by Germany’s International Climate Initiative have been analyzing how sustainable land use, such as organic agroforestry cocoa and silvopastoral systems, affect tendencies toward conserving forest and building stability in conflict-affected areas. So, what have they

CGIAR’s Climate Resilience Initiative kicked off in six countries. Many of the Initiative’s 130-plus partners attended. The Initiative focuses on collaborative work to improve smallholder resilience to climate change, and much of ClimBeR’s on-the-ground work is underway Lusaka, ZAMBIA – As the Deputy Director of an organization that works with 75,000 smallholder farmers, Noel Simykonde is a firsthand witness to

A collaboration between the CGIAR Initiatives on Asian Mega-Deltas (AMD) and Low-Emission Food Systems (Mitigate+), a Learning Alliance for Living Labs workshop was organized by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Can Tho City, Vietnam on 6 December 2022 to form a network of diverse stakeholders within the region, that has an interest to address climate-related issues in the Mekong Delta.

By Giriraj Amarnath and Ana María Loboguerrero Natural disasters place a significant burden on health resources. When rivers rise due to flash flooding, buildings collapse from earthquakes, or wildfires spread through residential areas, many people can die quickly. The mid-term outlook can also be bleak if the immediate response to disasters overstrains healthcare services. Public health activities like routine emergency

By Murat Sartas, Innovation and Impact Management Scientist, CGIAR’s Climate Resilience Initiative (ClimBeR) Our lessons from COP 27: For effective climate action, we must go beyond technical fixes and innovate and scale context-specific action, partnership collaboration, and digital ecosystem management systems packages for organizational solutions COP 27 was very exciting, refreshing, intense and tiring, and – if we’re fortunate –

Despite being one of the key drivers of food production and food security in Bangladesh, diesel irrigation is responsible for a rising fiscal burden on the state exchequers and environmental costs to the country. For the country’s energy security and given the government’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), Bangladesh should shift

By Birgit Habermann Let us admit it, workshops can be really boring. But they can be fun, too! What are the ingredients for that? First, you need to have the right people in the room. Second, you have to honestly engage them. Third, the engagement should be about something they care about. And finally, use colors and some toys to

Living labs are gaining in popularity in different parts of the world. But do we always agree on what a living lab actually is? No. Scientists among themselves have very different visions of a living lab. Bringing in other stakeholders does not make it less confusing to reach an agreement. The term itself invokes an image like this: A living