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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 –

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

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

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

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,

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

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