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Cross-sectoral jurisdictional approaches offer promise   The increased consumption and production of a range of raw material and commodities, so-called “Forest-risk commodities” such as palm oil, soy, cocoa, coffee, rubber, timber and beef, contributes significantly to global tropical deforestation and forest degradation. As both global and domestic demand grows for such commodities, they constitute one of the biggest threats to forests,

A contribution from the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) and its partners to the public consultations of the UN Action Tracks This webpage gathers the core set of 11 evidence-based game changing solutions elaborated by the FTA program and submitted as proposals to the UNFSS summit illustrating clearly how they link to the UN 5 Action Tracks. 

FTA, the largest research programme for development program of forests, trees and agroforestry ran a fully digital scientific conference from 14 to 25 September 2020. The conference was held as an FTA closed event: it gathered all researchers involved in FTA from its partner organizations to present the most exciting research results, exchange experiences and lessons learned, and reflect on

Outdated assumptions around gender continue to hinder effective and fair policymaking and action for climate mitigation and adaptation, a new study published in Nature Climate Change has found.   Gender—alongside other identities like race, class and age—has a powerful influence on people’s experience of, and resilience to, climate change, said the lead author of the study Dr. Jacqueline Lau, a post-doctoral research fellow working

Already suffering from climate disasters and persistent floods, Bangladesh’s coastal communities were sorely impacted by the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. Lockdown restrictions halted fishing activities, which are the main source of income, nutrition, and livelihoods in many rural areas. Capacity development in financial management and alternative livelihoods through formal training delivered by WorldFish’s USAID-funded ECOFISH II project is empowering

BY DALIA ELSABBAGH, SIKANDRA KURDI AND MANFRED WIEBELT The day-to-day hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic are often compared to life during wartime. But Yemenis have it far worse: They are experiencing a pandemic and a war simultaneously. Before 2020, Yemen’s ongoing civil war had cut GDP almost by half; since then COVID-19 has further decimated the economy. Dalia Elsabbagh, Sikandra Kurdi,

Moved by the need to create an active community of research around agricultural innovations, SPIA recently awarded small grants to 14 early-career researchers working in Ethiopia. Taking stock of efforts for institutionalizing the collection of adoption data at the country level, grantees have started working on some of the puzzling questions raised by the Ethiopian synthesis report. Each grantee has been assigned a

The impacts of COVID-19 on our global food system have affected the food security and nutritional wellbeing of millions of people worldwide, with market closures, supply disruptions and losses in income and employment. Understanding the extent and nature of these impacts will be critical to building resilience to future shocks, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. CGIAR researchers have conducted