Report on the CLIMBER Work Package 3 Technical Working Group 1st Virtual Meeting

Whitfield, Stephen; Rebecca Sarku; Terrence Mavuso; Shiluva Chauke Nkanyani & Joshua Laichena. 2024. Report on the CLIMBER Work Package 3 Technical Working Group 1st Virtual Meeting. CGIAR System Organization

THIS IS REPORT ON THE CLIMBER WORK PACKAGE 3 TECHNICAL WORKING GROUP 1ST VIRTUAL MEETING. Without adaptation solutions now, millions of smallholder farmers will be unprepared for the severe consequences of increased temperature, drought, flooding, and other climate extremes. Building Systemic Resilience Against Climate Variability and Extremes, or CLIMBER, is a CGIAR Research Initiative that will address this challenge as part of CGIAR’s new research portfolio that will deliver science and innovation to transform food, land, and water systems.T he Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) and the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) coordinate work in Kenya under CLIMBER Work Package 3, along with CGIAR institutions and partner organisations from the UK.

Work Package 3 of CLIMBER provides integrated evidence for policy pathways, by bringing together state-of-the-art crop-climate modeling with trade and nutrition analyses, expert knowledge, bottom-up identification of seeds of change and stakeholder-driven research agendas. The integrated Future Estimator for Emissions and Diets (iFEED) is being used to model a range of pathways (particularly associated with crop diversification and investments in irrigation) and evaluate their contribution to long-term strategic food system goals from a land, water, nutrition and trade perspective. A working group of in-country individuals will work closely with the CLIMBER WP3 team to interpret iFEED results and give direction and leadership on the use iFEED research informing policy development and helping to link local and national evidence around food systems transformation. The meeting aims to introduce the Technical Working Group to iFEED and research plans in Kenya.