News Overview

After Cyclone Idai, women in rural Zimbabwe carry the hidden cost of recovery. This blog reveals how unpaid care work expands under climate stress, shaping food security, time poverty, and women’s everyday survival.

In conflict-affected Cabo Delgado, new CGIAR–WFP research is guiding the design of conflict-sensitive nature-based solutions. By linking ecosystem science with local conflict dynamics, the approach supports recovery efforts that strengthen livelihoods and resilience for 7,000 vulnerable households without worsening tensions.

Climate change is worsening food insecurity and gender inequality in Chimanimani, increasing the risk of gender-based violence. As climate shocks strain households, women face rising domestic abuse but often remain silent to preserve marriages shaped by patriarchal norms. This blog explores how climate stress and cultural expectations sustain GBV during crises.

CGIAR research is helping UNHCR embed climate and environmental data into humanitarian operations worldwide. By strengthening anticipatory, climate-informed planning, this collaboration supports safer, more resilient refugee settlements and protection outcomes in displacement settings increasingly shaped by climate risk.

CGIAR is supporting Honduras’ National Institute of Statistics to integrate climate and displacement into national surveys. By strengthening household data systems, the collaboration makes climate-driven mobility and vulnerability visible, improving evidence for policies that anticipate displacement and support affected communities.

Honduras has launched its first Adaptive Social Protection Policy, informed by community evidence from across the country. The policy strengthens how social protection systems anticipate and respond to climate, disaster, displacement, and economic shocks affecting the most vulnerable households.

Climate risks are no longer abstract scenarios. They are reshaping security, governance, and cooperation in real time. At the Montreal Climate Security Summit, military, policy, and research actors confronted what is already breaking and what can still be fixed, together, if climate risk is treated as a call to joint action.