Author: GLF Committee

Original post by Peter Holmgren. The year 2015 is key for the future of our growing population on this planet. With the Kyoto-protocol coming to an end by 2020, world leaders will be meeting next month in Warsaw to continue work on a new climate change agreement that applies to both developed and developing countries. […]

Original post by Louis Verchot. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its fifth climate assessment report last week, confirming speculation that human activities are the main cause of climate change since the mid-20th century. But what does this mean for the world’s forests? Read the full post here.

The risk of drought is high as climate changes. But agriculture can become resilient, say senior researchers from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in a special Nature Outlook. Agriculture will be faced with alarming challenges under a changing climate, with many parts of the world facing more severe […]

Our Data and Tools for Planning team has recently coordinated and released a site atlas for the research sites in East Africa, West Africa and South Asia. The recently released atlases add to the growing suite of documents that provide background information on the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) […]

Kenya held a successful National Adaptation Planning meeting for the Agriculture Sector in mid-September 2013. The meeting brought together stakeholders in agriculture to  consider how Kenya should proactively deal with food production challenges and opportunities presented by climate change. Read the full post here. Original post by Vivian Atakos, Vanessa Meadu, Maren Radeny and James […]

The Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012 called for the design of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of the global development framework after 2015 — the year when the Millennium Development Goals (SDGs) will expire. An Open Working Group of the UN General Assembly is currently convening around several key issues, among them land use, […]