PABRA empowered 92 Rwandan schools with 3.15 tons of high-iron bean seeds, combining agriculture, nutrition, and climate-smart training to improve student health, school meals, and community resilience through the Sustainable School Feeding Initiative. What if the key to better school performance, stronger communities, and healthier futures could start with a single bean seed? In Rwanda, that idea is becoming
At the 2025 Africa Food Systems Forum in Senegal, ImpactSF brought together policymakers, fund managers, investors, and development partners to discuss how catalytic capital can empower agricultural entrepreneurs. Speakers and panelists explored ways to mobilize investment, de-risk agricultural finance, and support the next generation of agribusiness leaders. The session highlighted the partnerships behind the Financing for Agri-SMEs in Africa (FASA)
CGIAR is ‘on the road’ to COP30 climate summit in Belem, Brazil, this November. But how is the research agenda of the world’s largest publicly funded research partnership for food security transforming to meet contemporary and future climate challenges? Climate change is no longer a distant threat. An additional 189 million people will face hunger in a world that is
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Kenya Dairy Board (KDB) signed a five-year memorandum of understanding to strengthen their existing collaboration and explore complementary research, institutional development, and capacity building opportunities towards transforming Kenya’s dairy sector for the benefit of millions of farmers, business operators, and consumers. The Kenya dairy sector is the largest in East Africa, contributing
Research for impact in the CGIAR Multifunctional Landscapes Program is implemented with partners and stakeholders in Living Labs. Living labs are gaining momentum as sub-national territories within which sustainable food system transformation is sought through multi-stakeholder engagement processes. According to the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), Living Labs are defined as “user-centered, open innovation ecosystems based on a systematic
Early-career researchers often fall into a “missing middle.” They have skills but little scaffolding, ideas but no networks, and research outputs that miss the very policy windows where evidence is most needed.
By Carlito Balingbing and Glenn Concepcion In a significant stride towards safeguarding global food security and reducing reliance on harmful pesticides, a new study has identified simple, environmentally friendly attractants that can effectively monitor and control insect pests in stored rice. This innovative research, spearheaded by scientists from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and partner institutions, offers a sustainable
The rain delays, sorghum withers; when a storm finally breaks, complaints rise again. To break this cycle of uncertainty, scientists from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, INERA, and the University of Ghana conducted the first large-scale survey on agricultural climate services in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, and Senegal. Published on July 9, 2025, in Frontiers in Climate, the study