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As researchers for development in agriculture, one of our greatest challenges is enabling change at scale. Our job, primarily, is to do groundbreaking science in close collaboration with beneficiaries. Sometimes this works astoundingly, as 50 years of CGIAR innovations show. In other cases, however, interventions provide benefits at smaller scales. There is nothing wrong with that. But today’s climate, nutrition and food

International Open Access Week is an annual scholarly communication event that is marked globally during the last full week of October to raise awareness about open access publishing of research and scholarly outputs to enable their universal online accessibility. The theme of Open Access Week 2021 (25 to 31 Oct) is ‘It matters how we open knowledge: Building structural equity’.

WorldFish and the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) are global leaders in aquatic food systems research and innovation for healthy people and planet, and science and partnerships are the foundation of our work. Our team delivers robust evidence to policymakers and technological innovations to producers, value chain actors and consumers in order to transform food systems. In this

Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health at WorldFish, received the 2021 World Food Prize for her groundbreaking research, critical insights and landmark innovations in developing nutrition-sensitive approaches to aquatic food systems, including fisheries and aquaculture, and integrated food production from land and water.  Read more

The links between global food systems, food security and climate change have never been more obvious.  The worst-case consequences of rising temperatures and drought played out this year in Madagascar with the first famine induced by climate change. Research suggests an additional 600 million people could be facing hunger by 2050 with a 2°C increase in global temperatures.  The international

Information gap One of the challenges for research for development organizations is to ensure their innovations are properly documented and findable by public and private partners. If the innovations that research organizations have designed, tested and validated are to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals, they must be available to businesses and governments for further adaptation and embedding into business

BY KARLA ESTRADA As climate change impacts escalate, food systems around the world and the people and communities depending on them face a range of problems including extreme weather events, the effects of heat on agricultural productivity, and limiting greenhouse gas emissions. In advance of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) underway Oct. 31-Nov. 12 in Glasgow, IFPRI researchers discussed four

Adaptation investments urgently needed for agriculture-dependent regions like Africa that have done the least to cause the climate crisis but suffer the most. Glasgow, UK (November 2, 2021) – Facing mounting evidence that climate change will fall hardest on agriculture-dependent regions like sub-Saharan Africa, a coalition of funders at the United Nations climate summit pledged $575 million today to deliver climate-smart solutions to