News Overview

Farmers in Kenya are facing growing impacts of climate change, including prolonged droughts, erratic rainfall, and sudden floods.

CGIAR Climate Action played an integral role at the 6th Global Climate-Smart Agriculture Conference, steering discussions away from mere pledges toward concrete deals and financial commitments for scaling up solutions.

At COP30 in Belém, Non-Market Approaches (NMAs) gained significant momentum by formally being linked to the UNFCCC's Mitigation Work Programme, elevating their role as a crucial complement to market-based climate action under Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement.

Due to deep political divisions over finance and technology, the Sharm el-Sheikh Joint Work (SJWA) on agriculture and food security stalled at COP30, deferring crucial implementation decisions to the final six months before its scheduled conclusion at COP31.

Irrigation is a potentially transformative technology for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that can address many of the region’s food system challenges, including growing food import dependence and stagnating rural employment—both linked to low agricultural productivity growth, poor market access, and weak financial systems—as well as climate change, characterized by unpredictable rainfall, prolonged dry spells, and floods.

CGIAR and AGNES are strengthening climate–security capacity across Africa by embedding conflict-sensitive analysis into climate governance training. Through applied courses and tools, the partnership equips policymakers and practitioners to anticipate climate risks, reduce tensions, and design more resilient, peace-supporting climate actions.

CGIAR Climate Security is supporting Kenyan counties to integrate peacebuilding into locally led climate adaptation through the County Climate Change Fund. By embedding conflict sensitivity into county planning, the approach helps ensure climate investments reduce tensions while strengthening resilience in ASAL regions.

Climate security is shaped by complex, local interactions. Drawing on leading researchers, this blog explores how climate stress, conflict, data gaps, and system dynamics are reshaping how we study risk, resilience, and peace.