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By Sigmund Kluckner, Digital Innovation Consultant for Impact Organizations and Change Makers, and Theresa Liebig, Associate Scientist, CGIAR Focus Climate Security The climate-security nexus has become a key issue in public and scientific debates. Research on the nexus and associated risks, implications, and solutions is scattered across scientific disciplines. With the Climate Security Observatory (CSO), the CGIAR Focus Climate Security aims to

Photo: Evan Girvetz of the CGIAR Climate Resilience Initiative speaks at COP 27 in Egypt about climate finance for resilient food systems in East Africa   By Pedro Chilambe, ClimBeR Climate finance and climate risk management specialist, and Evan Girvetz, ClimBeR Climate Finance research area Lead Addressing food insecurity and climate change risks in East Africa is fundamental to the

By Karen Camilo, Francisco Armenta and Byron Reyes CGIAR is committed to seeing the results of research by its scientists achieve results. As such, each of its research initiatives has a monitoring, evaluation, learning and impact assessment, or MELIA, component. Below, we discuss the MELIA strategy for Mitigate+, the CGIAR Initiative on Low-Emission Food Systems. Why do we need a

Photo: CGIAR’s Climate Resilience Initiative and partners meet in Dakar, Senegal to discuss climate security and chart a way forward Climate change and variability have numerous security implications in the Sahel region in North Africa, which already has a precarious security situation. Senegal is considered an island of stability in the region, making it a key country to understand –

Photo: Women in the agricultural areas in Casamance, Senegal Climate-driven environmental challenges and peacebuilding meet in southern Senegal. Two CGIAR Climate Resilience Initiative scientists discuss the challenges faced by – and next steps for – people reclaiming ancestral land that was scarred by conflict – and changed by the climate. By Alexandra Krendelsberger (Wageningen University and Research; The Alliance of

The CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience makes global impact by paying attention to local nuances and contexts. The Initiative establishes baselines and action plans understanding individual farmers and communities using a standardized tool that both puts things in a global context but makes sure actions are successfully tailored to local needs. Introduction On the surface, two small-scale farming families thousands

Photo: Pastoralists in Kenya (Kabir Dhanji/ILRI) By Pedro Chilambe; ClimBeR Climate finance and climate risk management specialist, Telvin Denje; Research Associate African Group of Negotiators Experts Support and Shadrack Arum; Research Associate, African Group of Negotiators Experts Support  The Karamoja cluster is an ecological and cultural region that spans the borders of Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and South Sudan. Pastoralism and

Image: Word clouds containing the 150 most frequent words on Twitter conversations about climate security in 2022. Check the source, Tracing the evolution of climate security debates on Twitter, for data going back to 2014. A team of scientists at CGIAR’s Climate Resilience Initiative built a tool to track #ClimateSecurity conversations on Twitter. The results so far show that, unlike