Climate of Cooperation
A new research partnership assesses current knowledge of how climate change affects agriculture and food security, toward mapping the way forward.
Interview with Pramod Aggarwal Pramod Aggarwal, Regional Facilitator for the Indo-Gangetic Plains with the CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Program, speaks about some of the threats and opportunities that climate change will present in this region and about appropriate responses to them.
Carbon Inclusive
Researchers call for a whole-landscape approach to carbon accounting in Indonesia to arrest high carbon leakage from wooded areas not formally recognized as forests.
REALU Needs
Climate change scientists investigate the institutional and legal challenges to reducing emissions from all land uses (REALU) in the Peruvian Amazon.
Rainy Day Savings
Integrated water storage provides a diversity of “water accounts” that reduce the risks to smallholder farmers posed by erratic rainfall under climate change.
Change for Chickpea
Scientists find that the higher temperatures and drought associated with climate change make chickpea more susceptible to fungal disease.
Drought Hardy Maize
New maize varieties are available to help African farmers cope with climate change, promising benefits for more than 4 million, if barriers to seed delivery can be overcome.
Rainfed and at Risk
Climate change and lack of irrigation spur a broad research partnership to speed the development of drought-proof rice varieties in Africa.
Children First
The new Global Hunger Index highlights the unlikelihood of achieving the global goal of halving hunger by 2015 without targeting malnutrition in children, especially girls.
Good to Eat
A feeding trial confirms that the provitamin A in “orange maize” is abundantly bioavailable to healthy subjects from porridge prepared using traditional African methods.
An Update on Media Coverage of CGIAR Research A steady stream of media underlines the relevance of CGIAR research to the intersecting issues of climate change, food security and rural poverty.
An Update on the Implementation of CGIAR Reforms
CGIAR reforms have advanced swiftly in recent months, with the Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers and CGIAR Fund making key decisions about their operations and about the content of strategic research.
