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Rice-Fish Impact and Adoption Survey in Southwest and Northern Bangladesh
No full textThe Rice-Fish Impact and Adoption Survey, conducted in Southwest and Northern Bangladesh, aims to provide researchers a comprehensive understanding of farming systems and rice-fish farming practices under the CGIAR initiative on securing the food systems of Asian Mega Deltas for climate and livelihood resilience (AMD). As part of the study, researchers visited 800 households across multiple villages in six districts
The New Goal: How can We Facilitate Financial Flows to Fragile Contexts in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel?
No full textThe document examines the challenges and opportunities in climate financing for fragile contexts in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel. Released during COP29, it analyzes financial flows to the Agriculture, Forestry, and Land Use (AFOLU) sector and highlights the significant financing gaps faced by vulnerable regions amid climate and conflict crises. The policy brief emphasizes the need for improved accessibility, transparency, and equity in climate finance mechanisms, advocating for streamlined processes and capacity strengthening to help countries cost their adaptation and mitigation needs. It also underscores the importance of prioritizing adaptation funding, particularly for women, youth, and marginalized groups in conflict-affected areas, while promoting sustainable and inclusive financing models like grants over loans. By bridging these gaps, the initiative aims to enhance resilience and empower local aims to enhance resilience and empower local communities in tackling climate challenges
Water and Sanitation Submission to the UAE – Belém work programme on indicators for measuring progress achieved towards the targets of the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience
No full textThe Glasgow–Sharm el-Sheikh work programme COP 28 decision’s on the global goal on adaptation (GGA) included the launching of a two-year UAE – Belém work programme on indicators for measuring progress achieved towards the targets established in paragraphs 9 and 10 of the Decision, with a view to identifying and, as needed, developing indicators and potential quantified elements for those targets.
At the same time, Parties and Observers were invited to submit, via the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) submission’s portal, by March 31st 2024 views on the development of indicators and quantified elements for the GGA targets, as well as views on modalities of the UAE – Belém work programme (e.g. organization of work, timelines, inputs, outputs and the involvement of stakeholders).
This submission by United Nations Water (UN-Water) has been coordinated by UNICEF and the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) Partnership. UN-Water is the coordination mechanism on water and sanitation, within the UN-system, bringing together the knowledge and experience of over 30 UN entities and over 40 partners. The joint submission ensures that the views of many different constituencies beyond the UN-System have been captured as it has gone through a wide set of parallel consultations
Food System Actors engaged in the cocreation of agroecological innovations: Results of three years of engagement in eight countries
No full textThe CGIAR initiative on Agroecology has been actively engaging with food system actors (FSA) in eight countries (Burkina Faso, India, Kenya, Lao PDR, Peru, Senegal, Tunisia, and Zimbabwe) to codesign, test, and adapt agroecological innovations, both technological and institutional, from food production to consumption. At the core of the Initiative is the necessity to generate scientific evidence that shows how agroecological principles applied in different socio-ecological systems are better able to provide equity, productivity, economic and environmental benefits than alternatives, including the status quo.
The engagement takes place in Agroecological Living Landscapes (ALLs) that are formed in selected territories of each country with diverse food system actors (FSA): farmer associations or communities, researchers from multiple disciplines, extensionists, private companies, international and national non-governmental organizations as well as local, regional, and national policymakers. The establishment of ALLs does not follow a standard methodology: Each country’s context and a participatory vision-to-action process leads to a different agroecological transition pathway(s) and multi stakeholder approaches.
The engagement of food system actors is addressed in the monitoring, evaluation, learning and impact assessment (MELIA) component of the Initiative. Country teams collected and reported data quarterly in a dedicated web-based application regarding engaging activities. FSA engage with the initiative when they participate in diverse activities that aim at assessing, co-designing and testing agroecological innovations at farm, market and policy levels. The co-creation process consists in FSA working together and having an equal voice in the activities that aim at developing agroecological innovations. Agroecological innovations in turn are of technological and institutional nature and concern the broad range of Agroecological principles (agroecological principles as defined in HLPE, 2019)
How to responsibly scale innovations in fragile settings?
No full textThis episode of the Global Dispatches podcast is produced in partnership with the CGIAR Research Initiative on Fragility, Conflict, and Migration for a series that examines what works to improve the well-being of people in Fragile and Conflict Affected Settings. CGIAR is a global partnership that unites international organizations engaged in research about food security
An Inclusive agri-food systems transformation pathway for India
No full textAlthough India has transformed from a food scarce to a food self-sufficient nation, the challenges of nutrition security, regional inequalities, and unsustainable agricultural practices persist. Existing policies lack an integrated vision for and implementation of holistic food system changes. This study undertakes a food system assessment for India using a global food system modelling framework, evaluating 23 food system measures on 14 indicators across dimensions of health, environment, inclusion, and economy. The food system measures include healthy diets, biosphere protection, agriculture management, equitable livelihood, and external reforms. Results indicate that 13 out of 14 indicators including nutrition and environmental outcomes improve due to synergistic effects driven by coordinated interventions, reducing trade-offs among the four dimensions of the food system. While progress is observed in most health and environmental indicators, challenges such as rising obesity and nitrogen pollution persist. Our attempt to quantify the dynamics of India’s food system under different scenarios enables understanding the trade-offs across dimensions. The comprehensive and forward-looking food system outcomes that this study elucidates aid in the identification of pivotal intervention points and facilitate strategizing policies for transformative changes
Intrahousehold inequality at different welfare levels: energy intake and energy expenditure data from the Philippines
No full textThis paper investigates the relationship between intrahousehold inequality and levels of household welfare. Under certain conditions it is demonstrated — with both the unitary model of the household and with some collective models — that the relationship between household welfare and inequality within the household can have an inverted u‐shape. Using two sets of calorie adequacy data from a sample of 455 households in the Philippines, a spline analysis is used to test the hypothesis that inequality within the household first increases and then decreases as per capita household total expenditure increases. The two sets of calorie adequacy data are based on repeated 24‐ hour recalls of dietary intake, and on calorie requirements that are unadjusted and then adjusted for individual activity patterns. Results indicate that once activity patterns are accounted for, calorie intake shortfalls are borne fairly equally within the household at all per capita household total expenditure levels
Toda Raba Limited: Integrated Aquaculture Agriculture Systems
No full textThis is a proposal for Scaling Climate Smart Aquaculture Technologies to Smallholder Farmers. The project is a partnership between Toda Raba Ltd and the International Management Institute (IWMI). With a $30,000 grant, the initiative aims to integrate Climate-Smart Aquaculture Technologies into the Toda Raba business model, enabling smallholder farmers to serve as buyers of high-quality fingerlings and seed while receiving extension services tailored to clients’ needs. Toda Raba aims to build a loyal network of return customers by providing guidance on aquaculture better management practices. This includes farm visits, interactive sessions, and skill development in integrated farming techniques. Recently, the company unveiled a state-of-the-art fish hatchery that employs advanced climate-smart aquaculture technologies to produce high-quality fingerlings in a greenhouse setting, with an estimated annual output of 1.2 million fingerlings