The CGIAR Initiatives on Excellence in Agronomy (EIA) and Asian Mega-Deltas (AMD), together with the Department of Crop Protection (DCP) led by its Deputy Director for the South, Mr. Le Thanh Tung, conducted a joint workshop in Can Tho City, Vietnam to introduce innovations supporting climate change adaptation and mitigation in the Mekong River Delta (MRD). EIA and AMD are
https://storage.googleapis.com/cgiarorg/2023/03/VIDEO-2023-02-23-09-56-19.mp4 Video: CGIAR Food System Accelerator kick-off in Kigali, Rwanda on February 22, 2023. [21 February 2023: Pretoria, South Africa] – The CGIAR Food Systems Accelerator kick-off event took place in Kigali, Rwanda, on February 22, 2023 to unveil its first cohort of agribusinesses from East and Southern Africa. The event brings together a diverse group of companies scaling
The combined impacts of climate change, rising populations, scarce resources, and growing demand for food are undermining economic development and food security in Africa. To meet these multiple challenges, smallholder farmers, who dominate the agricultural sector, need to be geared up. However, lack of access to technologies, such as smartphones and the internet, is a barrier to spreading knowledge and
Government ministries, researchers, NGOs, businesses, and others come together to debate policy priorities for Zambia to strengthen agriculture in the face of climate change. By Sean Mattson and Idil Ires Lusaka, ZAMBIA – Zambia’s leaders are clear about where they see their country a decade from now. “This country aspires to be a prosperous, middle-income country by 2030,” said Joy
By Saba Ermyas CGIAR’s regional initiative Ukama Ustawi (UU) partners in the East and Southern Africa (ESA) region, CGIAR (IWMI, ILRI, IFPRI, ABC, CIMMYT, WorldFish, IITA), and GIZ scaling experts came together in Nairobi from 22–24 November to discuss scaling agri-food system innovations where they launched the CGIAR Food Systems Accelerator program on 23 November at the International Livestock Research
The CGIAR Research Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa hosted a National Policy Dialogue to understand Kenya’s needs in the enabling environment to support resilient agriculture. By Nilu Rajapakse Agriculture is rainfed in Kenya and employs more than 40 percent of the total population, constituting more than 70 percent of rural smallholder farmers, and contributes to 20 percent
Por Ma. Eliza J. Villarino (traducido al español por Karoll Valentina Yomayuza) Durante los últimos cuatro años, investigadores de la Alianza de Bioversity International y sus socios, en el marco de un proyecto financiado por la Iniciativa Climática Internacional de Alemania, han analizado cómo el uso sostenible del suelo, como el cacao agroforestal orgánico y los sistemas silvopastoriles, afectan a
NAIROBI, November 23, 2022 — The underlying reasons for poor agricultural performance in climate-change affected East and Southern Africa (ESA) is the low efficiency of agricultural value chains and lack of resilience against climate shocks. And farmers are the most affected by those inefficiencies and threats. The significant hurdles faced by agricultural value chains include access to affordable inputs,