As 2025 draws to a close, the climate-security agenda feels less like a niche debate, growing sharper, more complex, and perhaps for the first time, more actionable. The intersection of climate change, migration, health, and conflict has become visible in courts, war zones, clinics, and mining fields. This year marked a shift from awareness to accountability. The question for 2026
The ECREA project is engaging farmers, researchers and institutions across East Africa in on-farm experiments launched in 2024 to test climate-informed practices that boost resilience and productivity in real farming conditions. Over the past two years, the project titled ‘Enhancing Climate Resilience in East Africa (ECREA)’ has worked with farmers, extension officers and local partners across Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda
By Evgeniya Anisimova and Sami Husa October 31, 2025 Extreme poverty and fragility are increasingly converging, and so must the policies and financing designed to address them. This was the central message of an October 17 policy seminar, Tackling Extreme Poverty and Financing for Food Systems in Africa, organized by IFPRI on the margins of the 2025 World Bank-International Monetary Fund (IMF) Annual
Los Baños, Philippines (24 October 2025) — The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has announced the appointment of Ms. Xi Cao as the new Head of the Clearing House Facility on Scaling of Agricultural Innovations for Development. In this role, she will lead efforts to design, implement, and scale transformative agricultural innovations that improve livelihoods, enhance food security, and foster
The Global Imperative for Climate Adaptation Climate change is causing increasingly severe and widespread negative impacts, especially on food and water security and vulnerable, marginalized communities. With each fraction of a degree of warming, risks to agriculture and livelihoods escalate, underscoring that adapting our agrifood systems is both a moral and economic imperative. Extreme droughts, heatwaves, and floods are disrupting
The Growing Together program empowers Tanzanian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and smallholder farmers with regenerative agriculture and business skills to build climate-resilient, profitable food systems. Across Tanzania’s agricultural heartlands—from Iringa to Mbeya, Morogoro, and Dodoma—smallholder farmers are the cornerstone of national food security. Yet, for years, their potential has been constrained by climate unpredictability, declining soil health, and
At October’s Africa Grain Trade Summit, leaders urged for investment in SMEs to scale regenerative agriculture, strengthening Africa’s fragile grain markets for food security. “We need to invest in SMEs that are scaling regenerative practices. They are the link between farmers and consumers, and the future of African grain trade.” Arnaud Petit, Executive Director, International Grains Council. This powerful call
This is Part 2 of this blog series on Building Local Research Capacity through Time, Trust, and Knowledge Transfer. Read part 1 here. In this edition, we unpack the real costs and inputs of mentorship and how these investments translate into measurable outcomes, giving a clear picture of the “cost curve” from mentorship to impact. If you want more policy-relevant