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A fresh start for CGIAR  A new year often means fresh starts—and that’s certainly true for CGIAR as it launches its new 2025–30 Portfolio this January (2025). CGIAR’s current Portfolio introduces:  8 new Science Programs (building on CGIAR’s former 32 Initiatives and 5 Impact Area Platforms)  3 Accelerators (designed to speed up gender equality, capacity sharing, and digital transformation)  1

CGIAR’s technical support helped negotiators at COP16 agree on a mechanism for sharing benefits derived from digital sequence information (DSI).

Putting nature at the heart of decision-making is key to achieving transformative change when it comes to securing humanity’s future. This is one of the key messages from a new synthesis report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) launched on February 18. The report, for which WLE-supported IWMI researcher Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu was a member of the Scientific Advisory Group,

Accelerating the development of sustainable groundwater use in Africa could be pivotal in the transformation of the continent’s food security and prosperity. This was the key message from a side event of the UN Food Systems Summit Science Days, organized by the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) with support from WLE. Held on July 6, the event brought together

Farmers in Nyando, Kenya are converting degraded, fragmented communal land into nature-positive farms, the first under the CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions. The effort will greatly diversify food production, livelihoods and the environmental health of a declining landscape formerly dedicated to livestock. By Rachel Kibui, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Special thanks to Dr. Gloria Otieno, Alliance, and Nicholas

By Surendra Phuyal, Sanju Koirala, Darshan Karki, and Anuj Mishra Experts and stakeholders working to ensure greater acceptance of the water–energy–food–ecosystems (WEFE) nexus approach in Nepal are calling for renewed efforts to get the WEFE nexus incorporated in government programs and policies. Such efforts, they stress, should include steps to educate more officials and elected representatives at all tiers of