On September 18, 2023, the One CGIAR initiative on Livestock and Climate, in collaboration with the Direction General des Forets (DGF) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), hosted a webinar addressing the challenges and opportunities in leveraging native species for the restoration of degraded silvopastoral systems in Tunisia. The webinar convened 34 participants from diverse national research and development institutions, fostering a rich exchange of perspectives.

The study was conducted by the Harnessing Gender and Social Equality for Resilience in Agrifood Systems (HER+) initiative in collaboration with UU in the context of the UU learning sites and HER+ learning labs.

A Digital Twin (DT) is a digital representation of reality. This report explores the implementation of DT in the context of basin scale water management, with a particular focus on developing countries. The review begins with an examination of the background of DT and then delves into successful applications of DT particularly in developing nations. It also explores the potential of integrating Virtual Reality (VR) technologies as a part of DT, emphasizing the importance of stakeholder needs assessment for effective deployment.

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), one of the research centers within the global Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), has a long history of gender research relevant to its mission of reducing poverty and ending hunger and malnutrition. Over the last two decades, gender has been effectively incorporated into all of IFPRI’s strategic research areas and into all phases of research. There is abundant evidence of IFPRI’s role as a leading global think tank on gender issues.

Climate change, flooding, disease and lack of proper governance are creating unforeseen challenges for
aquaculture development in Bangladesh. Identifying the various characteristics of the aquaculture production systems and designing approaches based on those characteristics can be valuable in identifying and disseminating innovative solutions to the newly arising problems in aquaculture in Bangladesh.

Transport-related projects in Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings (FCS) encounter operational risks and challenges and have the potential to ignore and/or exacerbate peace and conflict dynamics by affecting the interplay of social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental factors that drive fragility, conflict, and violence. Being insufficiently aware of the conflict dynamics may inadvertently contribute to conflict and undermine the achievement of the project’s goals, as well as undermining its potential to contribute to peace and stability.

This report provides a deep dive on the Sen AgriHack 2023, the innovation challenge organized by AICCRA to address post-harvest losses in Senegal. Through Sen AgriHack 2023, AICCRA created a dynamic platform for interdisciplinary collaboration among participants and stakeholders to generate relevant solutions to challenges faced by farmers and value chain actors. The event also included a capacity building component on climate change and its impacts, gender responsive-csa, post harvest management provided by CGIAR experts.

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) conducted a one-day workshop on “Leveraging the Role of Computer Vision in Agriculture Applications” as part of the CGIAR Initiative on Digital Innovation Initiative (DI). The workshop was organized at Delhi Technological University (DTU) on 20th November 2023. It was a joint effort by CGIAR's IRRI with DTU, New Delhi, and was meant for research scholars, and engineering students working in the field of Digital Agriculture. Sessions on the latest technologies used in Digital Agriculture were conducted during the workshops.

The objective of this research was to assess the effectiveness of the innovation platform (IP) (Terbol Station) on the wheat seed sector in Lebanon. Data were collected from 16 seed producers after identifying and mapping the key stakeholders in the seed sector. Descriptive statistics was used to categorize and evaluate the efficacy of the innovation platform by identifying six groups: seed availability and access, knowledge and training, seed production and market impact, incentives, joint planning, and the situation of the seed sector in Lebanon.