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Senior Director of Water Systems, CGIAR, and Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI).

“Groundwater is the hidden water resource,” says Dr Andrew Ross, an honorary research fellow at the Australian National University’s Fenner School of Environment and Society. “It accounts for more than 99 percent of liquid freshwater on Earth, half of all drinking water and a quarter of the water used for irrigation, serving 38 percent of the world’s irrigated land.” Dr Ross

By: Dylan Anderson-Berens and Mark LundyThe Food Action Alliance (FAA), a global food systems initiative facilitated by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT in Latin America, promotes market-driven sustainable food systems transformationIn our first blog in this series of four, we presented the Food Action Alliance (FAA) and its seven current flagship projects that respond to Latin America’s food system imperatives. As

By Barbara Vinceti and Sean Mattson, NATURE+ and Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Burkina Faso is ramping up efforts to plant native tree species to tackle desertification and landscape degradation. Ongoing research by the CGIAR’s Nature-Positive Solutions Initiative builds on a growing knowledge base that will be key to the country’s commitment to restoring 5 million hectares by 2030.

By Shisher Shrestha, Nilhari Neupane, Ritavrat Joshi, and Manohara Khadka The mid-hills of Nepal account for 68% of the country’s total area[1] and 56% of its arable land. Ranging in altitude from 610m to 4,876m, there are many small pockets of micro-irrigation that have the potential for high-value crop cultivation. However, almost a third of irrigable land here remains rainfed[2]