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The project responds to the urgent need for co-designed Weather and Climate Information Services (WCIS), recognizing their pivotal role in enabling farmers to anticipate and manage extreme events, optimize favorable conditions, and adapt to the ever-evolving climate landscape. However, amidst these efforts, there exists a critical gap in inclusivity, particularly concerning the engagement of women and youth, who are disproportionately

As the adverse impacts of climate change on farming and food systems intensify in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is encouraging its Developing Member Countries to accelerate investments in upscaling climate-smart agricultural practices. While global food systems are responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, they also offer low-cost, nature-based climate change mitigation

WorldFish’s Interim Director General Essam Yassin Mohammed joined cooperative meetings at the international AFRAQ21 conference to deepen bilateral cooperation and advance climate-smart solutions to… Read more

The Initiative capitalizes on climate-smart innovation, biodiversity, and natural resources from a diverse range of ecosystems within the most climate-impacted region in the world. Developed in close consultation with country partners to optimize their knowledge, and target their demands and needs, F2R-CWANA delivers partners the full OneCGIAR range of expertise, networks, and assets, and aims to address regional and country-specific agri-food

One year in, BRAINS Project is taking shape—empowering African farmers with innovative bean, insect, and fruit tree value chains that boost resilience, nutrition, and income through inclusive, climate-smart solutions.

The EU-DeSIRA Malawi team comprising Program Manager Marco Vacirca and Finance Manager Chapresto Cortes Maria visited on-farm trials at Mulanje and Salima and on-station at Chitala Research Station from 6 to 9 March. The CGIAR centers showcasing their trials were IITA, CIMMYT, CIP, CIAT, ICRISAT, IFPRI, WorldFish, and ICRAF. DeSIRA (Climate-smart innovations to improve productivity, profitability, and sustainability of agriculture and

Homa Bay County leadership, researchers, and farmers met in November 2025 to co-produce climate-smart bean advisories, ensuring timely guidance for the ongoing short rains as climate risks continue to intensify.

Since the 1980s, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) have spearheaded the development and deployment of climate-smart maize in Africa. This game-changing work has generated massive impacts for smallholder farmers, maize consumers, and seed markets in the region. It also offers a blueprint for CGIAR’s new 2030 Research and Innovation