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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

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.

QTL profiling is now integrated into the EBS Platform’s MDA module. Teams across CGIAR research Centers continue to collaborate to enhance the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS), the breeding data management platform developed and maintained by CGIAR. This joint effort ensures that EBS evolves with user needs and provides crop-agnostic support to breeders across 20 crops worldwide. EBS is actively developing

MOROGORO, Tanzania (8 October 2025) — Elite rice lines are outperforming the current popular varieties across Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), reaching up to 7.5 tons per hectare in trials, with next-generation lines poised to hit 9 tons. These results were presented during the ESA 2025 Advancement Meeting held by OneIRRI- NARES Network for East and Southern Africa, where the

From 22nd to 26th September 2025, more than 160 delegates from 27 countries came together in Edinburgh for Natural Fibre Connect (NFC) 2025 with over 1,000 participating virtually. NFC is an alliance between leading alpaca, cashmere, mohair and wool organizations and the event is a global platform that brings together different value chain stakeholders such as producers, policymakers, researchers and

With more than 1,300 delegates from 90 countries, the tenth Global Land Forum (GLF) turned Bogotá into the epicenter of international debate on land rights. In this setting, CGIAR contributed its perspective from applied research, participating in the decision-making spaces of the International Land Coalition (ILC) and presenting locally grounded solutions. Held recently in the Colombian capital, the GLF brought together experts, community

By Bedru Balana, Augustine Iraoya, Abba Aminu, Musa T. Yakasai, and Claudia Ringler November 11, 2025 In Nigeria, rainfed agriculture supports over 90% of agricultural production. Yet—as in the rest of Africa— farmers using this approach face increasingly erratic rainfall, prolonged dry spells, and extreme weather events. Small-scale irrigation (SSI) has emerged as one of the most promising and potentially transformative solutions

On October 31, 2025, the Ousmane Tanor Dieng Ministerial Sphere in Diamniadio hosted the official launch of the Climate-Smart Agriculture Investment Plan (CSAIP). The event, chaired by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Livestock (MASAE), symbolized the country’s commitment to reconciling productivity, resilience, and sustainability. Born from a broad participatory process, the Plan emerged thanks to the technical and scientific