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The blog below was first posted on IFPRI’s Nigeria website.. On November 12-13, 2024, the Federal Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy, in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and WorldFish organized a two-day workshop aimed at validating the new National Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy (2025-2029) under the CGIAR Initiatives on National Policies and Strategies and Aquatic Foods. The workshop marked

Also available in Spanish How do we align policies to support both peacebuilding and environmental sustainability? This compelling question was at the heart of a recent webinar hosted by Alliance Bioversity & CIAT in collaboration with the Universidad de los Andes. Led by Alexander Buriticá and the NPS Initiative team, the session unpacked the complexities of aligning public policies for

Also available in English ¿Cómo alineamos las políticas públicas para apoyar tanto la construcción de paz como la sostenibilidad ambiental? Esta pregunta fue el tema central de un reciente seminario web organizado por la Alianza Bioversity y el CIAT en colaboración con la Universidad de los Andes en el marco de la iniciativa del CGIAR sobre Políticas y Estrategias Nacionales

On November 6, 2024, International Potato Center (CIP) through the CGIAR initiative on National Policies and Strategies (NPS), hosted a workshop in collaboration with the Feed the Future Global Biotech Potato Partnership project. The event took place at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Kuru, Jos, Nigeria. The primary objective of the workshop was to promote

The Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, closed on 1 November, after 12 days of events and negotiations centered around the theme of “Peace with Nature”. Throughout the conference, the CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains played an active role in highlighting the importance of water–energy–food–ecosystems (WEFE) nexus approaches.

By Giriraj Amarnath and Alok Sikka Knowledge and outputs from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI)’s two decades of research into monitoring and managing droughts are now available through a single platform. The new website “IWMI Drought Monitor”, developed with support from the CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains, shares comprehensive information from the Institute’s work implementing drought-management innovations.  As climate

Original article published in The Nation on 18 November 2024 To help address the water crisis in Pakistan, the International Water Management institute (IWMI) has installed the country’s first eddy covariance (EC) flux tower in Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology in Punjab’s Rahim Yar Khan district. The flux tower, which will inform research by the CGIAR Initiative on

By Bukiwe M. Sibanda A pivotal three-day workshop on advancing integrated water storage in the Shashe Catchment, a sub-basin of the Limpopo Basin shared by Zimbabwe and Botswana, convened from 8 to 10 October 2024 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The event was jointly organized by Dabane, an NGO working to establish sustainable water management in semi-arid Southern Africa, and the International