Authors: Dr. Céline Termote, Francis Oduor, Wyclife Agumba Oluoch and Rachel Kibui (The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT) Photos by Wyclife Agumba Oluoch Climate change, increased reliance on processed food and landscape degradation threaten a potentially critical source of nutrition in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands. Work by CGIAR’s NATURE+ Initiative and partners points to actions to increase production
By Rachel Kibui with special thanks to Dr. Gloria Otieno and Lillian Aluso (The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT) CGIAR’s Nature-Positive Solutions Initiative and partners recently began working with farmers in the Kenyan counties of Kisumu and Vihiga to design permaculture production practices. Permaculture – a form of agriculture that is based on working in tandem with natural systems
Author of this blog: Udo Rudiger, Agricultural Innovation Specialist, ICARDA – Tunisia Small-scale livestock farmers in Central Tunisia are suffering from scarcity of feed resources and increasing feed prices. Since the beginning of the Ukraine war, prices for feed concentrates have significantly increased from about 350 $ / ton to almost 500 $ / ton. In addition, the extreme drought
CGIAR’s Nature-Positive Solutions Initiative and partners envision a green and blue (cyan!) economic future for rural areas in Western India. A cyan future will benefit nature, local economies and make agrarian communities more resilient to environmental and market shocks. Authors: Mansi Tripathi, Researcher – Resource Recovery and Reuse, International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Alok Sikka, Principal Researcher & Country Rep.
Author of this blog post: Elizabeth Ramirez (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT) The Ucayali region has been one of the most affected by deforestation. According to a report by the Geobosques portal, 47,267 hectares of forest were lost in 2020, affecting more than 20,000 cacao producers in the region. To address this situation, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT has been working
Research by CGIAR’s Nature+ Initiative in arid and semi-arid Kenyan nomadic communities showed declines in nutrition driven by climate change and drought. But pastoralist communities that grew vegetables had better diets than those that didn’t. By CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions Authors: Dr. Céline Termote and Rachel Kibui, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Kenya’s Turkana County is one of
In our latest newsletter, we invite you to read the 2022 Annual Technical Report of the CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology and discover significant progress on its research for impact in eight countries. The Agroecology Initiative is now in its second year. Since the pre-consultation and Initiative design process in 2020 and 2021 and its effective initiation in 2022, it has
Authors of this blog: Zied Idoudi, Aymen Frija, Véronique Alary, Mourad Rekik (ICRADA) Soil is the foundation of all successful and resilient agri-food systems. But current agricultural practices are not always oriented towards preserving and improving this important resource. In the dry vulnerable area of Kef-Siliana in Northwest Tunisia where the prevailing agriculture is dominated by cereals (barley, wheat, oat),