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
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
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 Louis Verchot Seven years since the landmark Paris Agreement, 53 of 195 parties have so far submitted their long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies. Of these 53, less than a third come from low- and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean. The submission of those long-term strategies was mandated in Article 4 of
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
Amid the often-distressing news about climate change, some good news: Existing strategies could mitigate livestock methane emissions by enough to help the sector limit its share of global warming to the 1.5°C target by 2030. In a meta-analysis published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Claudia Arndt, Leader of the Mazingira Centre at the International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya, and a
By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino Caqueta embodies one of those places that offer great potential for achieving dual climate change mitigation objectives: reducing greenhouse gas emissions and creating carbon sinks. The Colombian department is home to vast areas for cattle grazing, which drives deforestation and thus the release of greenhouse gases that warm the planet. At the same time, Caqueta
by Ma. Eliza Villarino and Augusto Castro Nunez The Low-Emission Food Systems Initiative Mitigate+ aims to contribute to low-emission food systems development and reduce net annual greenhouse gas emissions from food systems. It forms part of CGIAR’s new research portfolio and includes IFPRI participation, delivering science and innovation to transform food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis. Innovations from CGIAR defined the