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Authors: Simone Staiger-Rivas and Gabriela Wiederkehr (both Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), based on initiative country reports The CGIAR initiative “Transformational Agroecology Across Food, Land and Water Systems” is actively engaging with food system actors (FSA) in seven countries (Burkina Faso, India, Kenya, Lao PDR, Peru, Tunisia, and Zimbabwe) to codesign, test, and adapt agroecological innovations, both technological and institutional, from food production

Authors: Aymen Frija (ICARDA), Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI), Frank Place (IFPRI) Agroecology calls for doing things differently. That includes not only farmers changing their agricultural practices but changing whole systems to support agroecological practices at the farm, community, regional, and even national level. Government set prices, taxes or subsidies  for agricultural inputs and outputs can affect the incentives of farmers and

Authors: Manuel Narjes (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), Boubaker Dhehibi (ICARDA), Christine Chege (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), Hambulo Ngoma (CIMMYT), Simone Staiger-Rivas (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT) Agroecology is a transdisciplinary, participatory, and action-oriented approach for codesigning innovations that over time enhance food systems’ resilience, equity, and environmental and economic sustainability at the farm, organizational and institutional levels. The CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology departs from the premise that

Authors: Véronique Alary (CIRAD/ICARDA), Frédéric Baudron (CIMMYT), Marcela Beltran (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), Thomas Falk (IFPRI), Sarah Freed (WorldFish), Nadia Guettou Djurfeldt (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), Guillaume Lestrelin (CIRAD), Sonali Singh (IFPRI), Taurai Zingwena (CIMMYT)  Agroecology is about making the most of nature’s goods and services while maintaining ecosystem integrity and improving resource efficiency, strengthening resilience, and securing social equity and responsibility in our

Authors: Manuel Narjes (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), Ernesto Parra (Cooperativa Agraria de Cacao Aromático Colpa de Loros)  The production of cacao (Theobroma cacao) in agroforestry arrangements is one of the sustainable land use systems conceived within the ecological corridor that is being promoted along the Aguaytía river basin, as part of the Regional Government of Ucayali’s (GOREU) Plan for the Sustainable Economic

Establishing ALLs in Andhra Pradesh for developing innovations, strategies and policies could  help address the challenges in India. Authors: Sudharsan Malaiappan1, Swati Renduchintala2  and Alok Sikka1 (1 International Water Management Institute, 2  CIFOR-ICRAF) Globally Food, Land, and Water Systems (FLWS) are being degraded rapidly. Indian agriculture is heavily dependent on natural resources. Agriculture plays a significant role in India’s $3.5 trillion

  Authors of this blog post: Chaturangi Wickramaratne (IWMI), Sarah Jones (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), Christine Lamanna (CIFOR-ICRAF) and Matthias Geck (CIFOR-ICRAF) The need for a paradigm shift in agriculture is becoming increasingly evident. High-input, simplified or intensive agricultural farms and landscapes fail to achieve food and nutritional security or provide resilience to global shocks, such as climate change. At the same

A first seminar in the series: Foster common understanding of agroecology    Authors: Chris Dickens, co-lead of the CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology and Simone Staiger, senior knowledge manager A comprehensive undertaking on agroecology as a CGIAR initiative requires a deliberate capacity strengthening effort for its more than 100 collaborating researchers from eight CGIAR centers together with CIFOR – ICRAF, and CIRAD