By Proloy Deb, Anton Urfels, Virender Kumar, Swatantra Kumar Dubey, and Jasbir Singh Naveen Dalal lives in the village of Basi Akbarpur in the Karnal district of Haryana, India. In the last five years, he says, several farmers in his village have had to deepen their tubewells due to unprecedented groundwater depletion. He also explains that although the farmers are
By Dr Wuletawu Abera and Yonas Getaneh Ethiopian lakes, vital to both local ecosystems and communities, face multiple threats from human activities and natural factors, including climate change. Yet, the long-term dynamics of water surface area in many of these lakes have remained a mystery. New research, carried out under the CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains, sheds light on this
By Askar Mukashov and Eleanor Jones Climate change is transforming the global landscape, creating unprecedented challenges for developing countries. These challenges are particularly acute in regions where economies heavily depend on agriculture, such as sub-Saharan Africa, where climate impacts such as droughts and extreme weather are increasingly disrupting farming economies and food systems. One of the critical questions facing policymakers
The 7th Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) Annual Regional Conference (KARC) was held at the Ciala Resort in Kisumu County, Kenya from the 26th to the 28th of June 2024. KIPPRA organized the event in collaboration with the International Potato Center (CIP), the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investments, the National Information Platform for Food and
Available in Spanish On July 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 2024, the “Training Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Its Application in Territories’ was held at the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT campus in Palmira, Colombia. This event was conducted within the framework of the CGIAR initiative on National Policies and Strategies and with the support of the CGIAR Gender Platform aligned
Available in English Los días 3, 4 y 5 de julio del 2024, en el campus de la Alianza de Bioversity y el Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical – CIAT en Palmira, se llevó a cabo el “Taller de entrenamiento sobre análisis de redes sociales y su aplicación en territorios”. Este evento se desarrolló en el marco de la iniciativa del CGIAR Políticas
The climate crisis has made it clear that we cannot address the challenges of conservation, food security, and greenhouse gas emissions in isolation – we need an approach that synthesizes data on complex interactions across water, energy, food, and environmental systems across time. Spatial planning, which incorporates the analysis and planning of land use activities and their interactions using modelling
Food, land, and water systems face daunting challenges in the future, and the body of research exploring these challenges is growing rapidly. This series of notes was launched in 2022 by the CGIAR Foresight Initiative to summarize what we know today about the future of various aspects of food systems. The goal of these notes is to serve as a quick