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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the launch of the UK-CGIAR Centre for Collaboration and Innovation in Science and Technology at this week’s Global Food Security Summit in London. CGIAR has a rich history of collaborating with the best and the brightest of UK science. The new cooperation facility will forge dynamic new collaborations between CGIAR, UK science institutes and

Scaling innovative agricultural solutions is crucial for addressing food security and sustainable development. The CGIAR Research Initiative on Livestock and Climate recognizes the importance of co-creating and delivering innovations that help livestock agrifood systems adapt to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Adopting the CGIAR Innovation Packages and Scaling Readiness (IPSR) approach is a key strategy to ensure the

By Kelvin Shikuku, George Amahnui, Augusto Castro-Nuñez and Hanna Ewell. Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands face dire climate change challenges, in addition to historical and resource-based conflicts. However, amidst these challenges, there’s a promising opportunity for climate change mitigation and peacebuilding to work together, to resolve conflicts and promote inclusive governance of natural resources with most affected local communities. This

Authors: Mourad Rekik, Principal Scientist – Small Ruminant Physiology and management, ICARDA Ons Tebourbi, Veterinarian, ICARDA Aymen Frija, agricultural economist, co-lead Work Package 4 for the Initiative on Agroecology Veronique Alary, agricultural economist, country lead for the Initiative on Agroecology In an innovative move, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and its national partners in

SBI Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of the State Bank of India, has partnered with the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Raichur, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Agribridge to launch the SMART-CROP project, Sustainable Monitoring and Real-time Tracking for Crop Resilience and Optimal Practices. The launch event, held today in Hyderabad, featured

The CGIAR Initiative on Asian Mega-Deltas (AMD) will host Coping with Salinity in Asian Mega-Deltas at the International Rice Congress 2023 in Manila, Philippines on 17 October 2023. The side event aims to address salinity intrusion that poses significant threats to the agri-food systems in the regions of Asian Mega-Deltas. Asian Mega-Deltas, including the Mekong, Irrawaddy, and Ganges-Brahmaputra, play a

The DeSIRA Integrated Rice-Fish Farming System (IRFFS) is a European Union funded project, whose goal is to enhance the development of rice and fish value chains for improved food, nutrition, and economic security through targeted research and extension approaches. DeSIRA stands for Development through Research in Agriculture, it is an EU initiative which aims to contribute to climate-relevant, productive