WATCH: Masresha Taye discusses insights from insurance provision to #pastoralists in the Borana region in Ethiopia Follow the link --> bit.ly/3OIh367

Price shocks increase the cost of a healthy diet by 2.2% in Kenya, mainly due to the rising cost of edible oils. Diet quality also worsens for many households, with food and fertilizer prices causing 3.5 million people to become deprived in @ least 1 additional food group. 🧵👇

Forthcoming in the AJAE: "Incentivizing and Nudging Farmers to Spread Information: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia," by Solomon Balew, Erwin Bulte, Zewdu Abro, and Menale Kassie

"Growing population & slowing productivity have made Egypt one of the largest wheat importers. Egypt needs more investments in climate change mitigation areas especially irrigation productivity &soil fertility management." said Kibrom Abay IFPRI CGIAR 📌The Arab Water Council's #EDF

I thank GIZ and the World Bank for their great support for this important livestock and #ClimateChange research—both mitigation and adaptation work! —@PollyErickson at the close of a 5-yr @GIZ_gmbh Bundesentwicklungsministerium project on climate-smart livestock (#PCSL) for Africa

In Botswana, a lack of markets for cattle leaves little incentive for farmers to look after them. Carbon sequestration credits can provide that market, ease tension, and improve management practices. - Edwin Mudongo of CLAWS at #GLFAfrica

Index-based livestock insurance has been introduced in Borena zone of southern Ethiopia by ILRI working in partnership with Oromia Insurance Company and other humanitarian agencies since 2012. Today OIC has paid about 12.7M ETB as a compensation for policy holders.

Report: 76% of pesticides used in Kenya contain ingredients listed as Highly Hazardous Pesticides; excess residues found in skuma wiki, tomatoes

Join #SPARCInnovation, Chloe Stull-Lane & Wowzi webinar: ‘Pastoralists on social media: potential to harness the power of influencers for impactful campaigns’ 1pm GMT on Thursday, November 3 #Pastoralism #resilience #digital #gender Register👇 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

#ClimateFinance continues to overlook people living with #fragility & #conflict - @COP27 is a key opportunity to change this & direct funding for #resilience Check out why this matters & how we're pushing for this #COP27 sparc-knowledge.org/news-features/…

Check out our updated schedule for #COP27 featuring events with Senegal, Colombia and on #ClimateSecurity! See you all at the events or online soon! cgiar.org/news-events/ev…

The journey into the market-led climate risk financing has begun! congratulations ILRI.org for incubating the IBLI innovation. It is now championed by the market players -- let the shelves BE filled with diverse variants of the index products businesswire.com/news/home/2022…

Check out this great course! #InnovationAndScaling innovationandscaling.thinkific.com/8cccy

🎙️ Listen to AICCRA Senegal's Anthony M. Whitbread on digital innovations - like our AgDataHubs & #BigData - for healthy livestock systems, gender inclusion and delivering agroadvisories at scale. More about AgDataHubs 👉 aiccra.cgiar.org/news/how-clima… ILRI.org #ClimateSmartAfrica #IDAWorks

We're excited to announce that four of our faculty and staff members have been recognized for their contributions to global engagement @UCDavis and around the world! Congratulations to all our honorees! 🎉 #GlobalAggies globalaffairs.ucdavis.edu/news/four-facu…

The apex of data and insights. Greater if in good seasons it can provide optimal mechanisms craft resilient anticipatory actions. fraym.io/blog/how-commu…

Defining and gathering high-frequency and representative data for policy-relevant indicators from complex ecosystems like pastoral drylands can be a up-hill task. A great crew (cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/1…) took the bold step to develop a replicable and scalable protocol. Bravo!

Some 49 agriculture-based saccos, whose members are primarily farmers, topped in loan defaults last year as a biting drought hit the earnings of contributors. businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/far…

When you visit your Alma Mater and tell the kids that u were there more than 20 years ago! They are at awe coz they are all under 17, I bumped into my image with Prof. George Saitoti before I got beard and then joined a thanks giving service in Iten. Anthony Yano KIPCHUMBA MURKOMEN, E.G.H

Sustainability debates need to be taken a notch higher to avoid the need for such high_level intervention. It's been clear in the past 10 years that donkey consumption was not sustainable. This should be the true lense for evaluation of investments thebrooke.org/news/african-u…