School meals can deliver benefits for health, livelihoods, and the environment. This can be accomplished by procurement decisions that diversify the ingredients, source from nearby, and engage communities and coalitions.
Scientists from the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), together with Hacienda San José (HSJ) in the department of Vichada, developed a pioneering methodology to estimate greenhouse gas emissions associated with bovine genetic resources—a component that had so far remained invisible in livestock carbon footprint analyses.
Convened with support from CGIAR’s Scaling for Impact program, the 10th CGIAR Advisory Committee Meeting in Dhaka reflected on five decades of CGIAR–Bangladesh collaboration — and how that legacy can shape the next generation of food-system innovation.
