Background and objectives of the study Armed conflicts and the violence they cause are among the major shocks which disrupt local food systems in most low- and middle-income countries. This generally...
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Innovation For Agricultural Climate Risk Insurance: Household Survey Preliminary Report
1. Introduction 1.1. Project summary The Innovation for African Climate Risk Insurance (InACRI) project aims to develop an improved crop insurance product that addresses the problem of basis risk...
Niger: Analyse de la réponse pour l’adaptation climatique (décembre 2021)
Messages clés Contexte Le Niger est un pays extrêmement vulnérable du fait de son exposition aux risques climatiques (sécheresse, inondations, hausse des températures), des décennies de mauvaise...
Tanzania: Critical Corporate Initiative: Climate Response Analysis for Adaptation (December 2021)
Executive summary Tanzania’s agricultural production system is largely dependent on rainfall and is thus highly susceptible to variabilities in rainfall and temperature. An analysis of historic...
Pakistan: Critical Corporate Initiative: Climate Response Analysis for Adaptation (December 2021)
Key messages Projected climate change impacts through 2050 In addition to analyses at the nationallevel, this report focuses on how projected climate impacts through 2050 will affect food security...
Somalia: Critical Corporate Initiative: Climate Response Analysis for Adaptation (December 2021)
Executive summary This report provides an overview of the projected impacts of climate change in Somalia at the national and local levels–from a livelihood zone perspective. The analysis focused on...
Guinée: Analyse de la réponse pour l’adaptation climatique (décembre 2021)
Messages clés Contexte La République de Guinée possède d’importantes ressources naturelles dont un réseau de bassins fluviaux conséquent et une grande biodiversité, mais fait face à des aléas...
Guinea-Bissau: Critical Corporate Initiative: Climate Response Analysis for Adaptation (December 2021)
Key Messages Context Guinea-Bissau is a low-income, food-deficit country with significant development challenges and high vulnerability to climate change. High levels of poverty, political...
Nepal: Critical Corporate Initiative: Climate Response Analysis for Adaptation (December 2021)
Key Messages Context Nepal is one of the countries that is most vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change. Climate change presents detrimental impacts on food and nutrition security. To...
Burundi: Critical Corporate Initiative: Climate Response Analysis for Adaptation (December 2021)
Key Messages The majority of Burundians are smallholder farmers facing serious constraints that will be further exacerbated under climate change. Most Burundian agricultural systems are highly...
Haïti : Analyse de la réponse pour l’adaptation climatique (décembre 2021)
Messages Clés Contexte Haïti, vu son profil de péninsule, est un pays extrêmement vulnérable aux chocs et aléas climatiques, ainsi qu’à leurs effets notablement négatifs sur la sécurité alimentaire...
Impact of Climate Variability on Internal Migration in the Philippines during 2005 - 2010
1 Introduction This report documents the extent to which changes in weather patterns—both short-term and sustained—influence internal migration in the Philippines. Our primary goal is empirical, as...
Alliance managing director for the Americas freed after kidnapping
December 7, 2020 – Jesús Antonio Quintana García, the managing director for the Americas at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, was freed after being abducted by an armed group in...
Integración de género en políticas de agricultura, seguridad alimentaria y cambio climático: el caso de Honduras - Reporte de actividades, mayo 2020
Resumen: La integración de la perspectiva de género en las políticas es fundamental para alcanzar objetivos de desarrollo nacionales y abordar retos como el cambio climático (CC), la seguridad...
Distributing high-iron and zinc bean varieties to women farmers during COVID-19
By Eileen Nchanji Achieving food and nutritional security and economic prosperity is possible within an equitable system where structural barriers are removed and traditional gender norms and...
Update: Food systems for healthier diets A4NH contributions to the nutrition sensitive movement in Vietnam continue
by Tuyen Huynh Agriculture for Nutrition and Health Research Program (A4NH) researchers from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT have been part of the Technical Working Group on...
Ethiopia Government and Alliance partners to implement USD 32 million water project
by Rosemary Nzuki The federal government of Ethiopia, through the regional government of Amhara, has been involved in the development of various water projects both for drinking and irrigation...
Transformed livelihoods empowering rural women in Rwanda
by Rosemary Nzuki In April 2018, heavy rains pounded the Virunga Mountains in Rwanda with torrents of water washing down to Burera Village causing flooding and destroying property as they went along. ...
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A wild bean’s genes may help a key crop thrive on a hotter Earth
The climate change point-of-no-return may still be 1 degree C away. But that is of little solace to the people whose lives have already been upended by a warmer climate. They include growers and...
Strengthening partnerships for agricultural resilience in Africa
by Rosemary Nzuki Morocco, 13 December 2019…The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) signed an agreement for future joint research with the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P)...