News Overview

Why Gender Matters in Climate Security?   Climate change impacts are not gender-neutral and vary across population groups. Women, children, minority groups, refugees, the elderly, and people with disabilities face differential vulnerabilities linked to resilience and adaptive capacity to diverse shocks and hazards (Pradyumna et al., 2022). In regions reliant on agriculture, pastoralism, and fisheries, climate-induced shocks—such as erratic rainfall, droughts,

CGIAR Executive Managing Director Ismahane Elouafi explains in an article in The National ahead of COP30,  how more efficient food systems can increase food production while lowering emissions and safeguarding the environment. READ THE ARTICLE HERE

Lasting progress on gender equality requires more than simply reaching or benefiting women. It demands transforming the very systems that shape their access to land and resources. Perspectives from the 2025 CGIAR GENDER Conference session co-hosted by the Alliance. An initiative to address the norms underpinning women’s rights Over the last five years, IFAD’s global initiative “Securing Women’s Land and Resource

In Mexico, a Crops to End Hunger project has been completed to develop new elite parental lines of wheat with increased resistance to diseases. These lines can be used in breeding programs to quickly introduce specific, targeted traits, like ready-made ingredients in a larger recipe. “Deep scoping rapid-cycle recurrent genomic selection to accelerate the breeding pipeline for quantitative disease resistance

By Hom Gartaula, Jon Hellin, Chona Echavez, Jeny Raviz, Susan Bacud, Alice Laborte, Magnolia Rosimo, Rodmyr Datoon, and Julian Gonsalves Organizations: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI); Research Institute for Mindanao Culture (RIMCU), Xavier University, Ateneo de Cagayan, Philippines; Institute of Weed Science, University of the Philippines Los Banos, Philippines; International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Cavite, Philippines; Agricultural Systems Institute, University

In northern Vietnam, Thai Nguyen province has become one of the most active hubs for advancing the One Health approach, connecting human, animal, and environment health through education, research, and practice at the grassroots. Over the past decade, Thai Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmacy and Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry have worked closely with the Vietnam One

Australia has joined forces with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) to support the training of researchers from developing countries to advance sustainable livestock production. The partnership arrangement, announced at the TropAg 2025 Conference taking place in Brisbane, Australia on 11-13 November 2025, will focus on building national capacity in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lao PDR, Tanzania, and Vietnam. All countries

Engaging the real-world elements of scaling agrifood solutions Written by Esther Kihoro ‘Scaling’ an innovation refers to increasing its readiness and use, which in turn increases the benefits the innovation generates. Scaling is needed now more than ever if we are to effect the unprecedented changes needed to transform the global food systems now under increasing multiple threats—e.g., from climate