News Overview

By Katrina Kosec, Jordan Kyle, Evgeniya Anisimova, Lucia Carrillo, and Omobolanle Onilogbo On May 12 in Abuja, Nigeria, two CGIAR initiatives –  Fragility, Conflict and Migration (FCM) and National Policies and Strategies for Food, Land and Water Systems Transformation (NPS) – brought together policymakers, researchers, and representatives from the private sector and civil society to discuss how to advance food systems resilience

A protracted refugee situation refers to a scenario when an entire generation of a family spend their whole lives in refugee camps. In this blog post, we reflect on the recent fieldwork we conducted at the Tongogara Refugee Camp in Zimbabwe. The majority of the people we interviewed in the camp have been residing there for 10 to 25 years,

Women in rural areas often do not have equal opportunities in labor markets and face challenges in accessing land, credit, insurance, technology, and agricultural resources. Barriers such as unpaid care work, limited skills training, regressive gender norms, and gender-based violence further limit their ability to increase or diversify income. Another possible, and often overlooked, barrier is a lack of women’s

On May 11, 2023 the Abuja office of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI Nigeria) and the CGIAR Research Initiative on Fragility, Conflict, and Migration (FCM) co-hosted a hybrid event featuring the Nigeria presentation of IFPRI’s 2023 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) titled “Rethinking Food Crises Responses” and the launch of the FCM Initiative. The event drew together various stakeholders

Economic crises take different forms and occur for various reasons, such as political conflicts and pandemics. What all these crises have in common is that they cause disruption to rural-urban food supply chains, resulting in food shortages for the urban poor, with the most direct impact being an increase in food prices. It is within this challenging context that urban agriculture can

To mitigate the negative effects of urbanization on resource use and environmental pollution, 15 key actors in the waste-sanitation-agriculture interface joined efforts to set up a Circular Bioeconomy Innovation Hub in Ghana. Based on a decade of CGIAR research, the hub links ministries, universities, science, and private sector, to offer their infrastructure and knowledge for building capacity in circular bio-solutions

The Fragility, Conflict, and Migration (FCM) Initiative is the newest addition in the CGIAR research portfolio. It officially started in April and is having two launch events in May: in Abuja, Nigeria, on May 11 and Amman, Jordan, on May 24. In this interview, Initiative Lead Katrina Kosec and Co-Leads Peter Läderach and Sandra Ruckstuhl answer a few questions about

On May 2nd, CGIAR launched its first official Regional Climate Security Hub for the MENA (Middle East & North Africa) region in Cairo, Egypt. The MENA Regional Climate Security Hub will create a space for CGIAR’s centers and partners in the region to work together in generating climate security science for the MENA region.  The CGIAR MENA Regional Climate Security