Project Outcome Reports at the Alliance

The Alliance's Outcome Impact Case Reports (OICRs) are evidence-based reports that demonstrate the contribution of the Alliance’s research and innovation in bringing about change in people’s behaviors and the state of specific agricultural, environmental and social conditions. The reports highlight the positive changes achieved through the Alliance's work, how the changes occurred, and the actors who contributed.

Explore evidence of lasting change through the reports below.

2023

Community seed banks boost seed, food and nutrition security for thousands in Kenya and Uganda

ClimBeR analyses position climate-security risks at the top of national, regional, and pan-African policy agendas for a more resilient and peaceful future.

AICCRA fosters foresight analysis community of practice in West and Central Africa

Enhancing climate forecasting in West Africa and the Sahel

Advancing climate-smart education in Africa: AICCRA-WASCAL-RUFORUM partnership mainstreams climate-smart agriculture and climate information services in African education systems

Elevating the role of African agri-businesses in climate action: Tools for tracking climate adaptation and measuring impact.

NextGen agroadvisory boosts Ethiopian wheat yields by 38%

Innovating climate adaptation tracking: Climate action’s groundbreaking research on tracking adaptation is shaping adaptation policy agendas from Africa to the globe.

AICCRA capacity building on Climate-Smart Agriculture Investment Planning equips Kenyan national and sub-national stakeholders to implement climate action.

Transforming lives: biofortified beans reach 22.14 million people in Africa

Boosting bean-based products: scaling SMEs in Malawi and Zambia

Upscaling bean-based recipes: Training 1000+ trainers in Malawi. Government and NGOs collaborate to incorporate beans to enhance quality of nutrition programs

Agroecological transformation in Kenya: partner organizations lead change

Asian rosewoods now critically endangered on IUCN Red List

APFORGEN secures $1.48M to protect vital asian tree species

ACAP links with RCMAS for enhanced farm advisories

Agro-Climatic Bulletin: empowering 221,000 Vietnamese farmers against climate change

Scaling climate resilience: Local agro-climatic committees reach 6,000 more Cambodian farmers

Digital climate advisories aid 5,000 monsoon rice farmers in Myanmar

Benefiting 5000 fish farmers in Myanmar: Digital climate advisories with microfinance

Weather protect insurance expands to 36,080 farmers in the Philippines

Indian government endorses CGIAR Gender Researchers' Network: A credible resource for recommendations on agri-food systems research, policies, and investments

Largest global Gender Research Network in agrifood systems established during CGIAR conference in India

Responsible scaling strategies for agricultural innovations

CGIAR and partner Gender Researchers Unite for transformative practices

Banana Genome Hub: empowering global collaboration in research

Informing FAO’s global agri-food system analysis: A research protocol for tracking climate-change adaptation. Enhancing national adaptation plans and investments.

Major impact investor group mobilizes USD 106 million for a climate-smart food systems strategy designed with Alliance -led CCAFS technical guidance.

Pepsico's green revolution: climate resilience boosts potato program

The innovative biodiversity monitoring framework called TerraBio has resulted in private sector buy-in supporting performance assessment in sustainable business models.

PlaSA Colombia — an Alliance-supported decision-making tool allowing students and the public and private sectors to gain a deeper insight into Colombia’s food systems.

Advancing water resources management in Honduras: Agua de Honduras Platform’s comprehensive impact and nationwide institutional adoption

The cause of high acrylamide in Peruvian panela

Meeting EU cacao cadmium limits: A novel, real-time technology ensures 100% compliance for one of Peru’s largest farming cooperatives.

Catalyzing new business models: The transformative influence of the partnership platform for the Amazon (PPA) on sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon

A Bioversity-CIAT Alliance collaboration with the Ucayali government (Peru) promotes agroecologically supported bio trade.

Honduras recognizes CIAT's role in food system transformation.

2022

Over 100,000 Laotian farmers use the seasonal climate forecasts and weekly agro-advisories disseminated via Laos climate services for agriculture to improve crop management

CGIAR's science has informed and influenced the negotiations of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and the final post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Ecuador's Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition is using the Collect Earth Online tool to improve forest monitoring data accuracy

Adoption of new flood forecasting technologies has improved Ecuador’s resilience and reduced the damage from extreme hydrological events.

An Alliance-led technical process resulted in two ministries adopting guidance for sustainable agriculture in Colombia´s fragile moorlands

Use of climate resilience platform by PepsiCo leadership led to climate-resilient planning and adaptation investment for its potato program covering 1.8 million tons across 8 countries.

Alliance’s research and engagement contributes to developing national action plan for transparent, responsible, and sustainable food systems transformation in Vietnam

An estimated 11,000 rice and cassava farmers in Cambodia are using agricultural advisories based on the seasonal forecast with support of Local Technical Agro-climatic Committees

Local Technical Agroclimatic Committees are empowering 20,000 Guatemalan farmers to thrive despite climate change

Over 130,000 farmers in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, have used timely weather forecasts and advisories to improve farm decisions, leading to higher yields and profits

An innovative scalable climate information service platform for resilient agriculture is now operational in six provinces in the Philippines

German government invests EUR15 million in major new program to pay small-scale farmers to produce ecosystem services, including climate change adaptation and mitigation

Ecuador’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) wins an award for the national digital soil fertility map that is being used to prevent land degradation.

Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) -supported inter-sectoral coordination leads to long -term climate-resilient agricultural strategy in Senegal

Cassava flour processors in Democratic Republic of Congo have increased their production capacity, incomes, and profitability by using the Efficient Small-scale Flash Dryer innovation

Tailored, climate-informed and location-specific agro-advisory services in the highlands of Ethiopia increased smallholder farmers’ wheat grain yields and profitability

Dietary health clubs for ethnic minority women in Northern Vietnam improved diet quality through vegetable and nutrition capacity building and seed access.

Participatory vegetable and seed system development enabled ethnic minority farmers in Northern Vietnam to form local value chain networks and increase production 5-7-fold.

Women’s investment club integrates climate-risk into accelerator and contributes to the uptake of climate-smart solutions in Senegal. AICCRA’s research and engagement is enhancing the awareness and capacity for private actors

A Dutch entrepreneurial development bank is using a risk assessment tool developed by the alliance with its clients.

A science-based investment due diligence & screening methodology co-developed with Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) to assess CSA impact in their $20 million agribusiness in Africa window round 2 program

The Central American Integration System (SICA) region launches Rural Youth Strategy focusing on climate smart agriculture based on the Alliance work

The Alliance supported a regional government in Peru to develop a bio trade strategy and 2028 action plan with regional partner

More than 1300 Food System Actors in seven countries engaged in the cocreation of agroecological innovations for promoting effective and sustainable agroecological transitions in the first year of implementation of the CGIAR initiative on Agroecology