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For decades, the global fight against child stunting has been framed around a central trinity: Nutrition, sanitation, and poverty

Climate risks are no longer abstract scenarios. They are reshaping security, governance, and cooperation in real time. At the Montreal Climate Security Summit, military, policy, and research actors confronted what is already breaking and what can still be fixed, together, if climate risk is treated as a call to joint action.

We often think of our food system in simple terms: farmers grow food, it travels to a market, and we buy it. It’s a straightforward path from farm to table. But the reality of how people access and eat food is far more complex, filled with hidden challenges and surprising social dynamics that shape the health of entire communities. The gap between our assumptions and the truth can prevent us from making effective changes.

This blog highlights how agribusinesses in Malawi and Zambia are translating science into scalable, investment-ready business models through the CGIAR Scaling for Impact (S4I) Agribusiness Bootcamp—advancing inclusive growth, climate resilience, and market-driven innovation across agrifood systems.

CGIAR Breeding for Tomorrow’s Accelerated Breeding team, together with Market Intelligence, recently spent ten days with IITA’s breeders working across maize, cowpea, soybean, cassava, yam, and banana. The goal was simple: strengthen alignment of Market Segments and Target Product Profiles (TPP), review breeding pipelines, and data systems.

Launched in January 2025 as a DTA-linked project, Fairgrounds aims to be the gateway for CGIAR to access global research data, while also opening CGIAR’s research data to the world.

Malawian smallholder farmers are turning beans into income and nutrition. Through improved seeds, cooperatives, and market access, farmers boost yields, earn profits, and build resilience, transforming livelihoods and strengthening local seed systems.

Ugandan farmers now master the value addition process to shift from selling raw grains to creating value-added and nutritious products, fostering income security and improve nutrition in their communities.