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CGIAR's 19 scaling tracks: what makes farm innovations stick, from Kenya to Bangladesh

CGIAR's Scaling for Impact programme runs 19 tracks that pair proven innovations with finance, markets and services, with results such as SMS weather advice for over a million Kenyan farmers and machinery-hire services in India and Bangladesh.

CGIAR8 October 20262 min read

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Kenya pilots AI-assisted rainy-season forecasts as farm advisories for the short rains

The Kenya Meteorological Service Authority, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and the AIM4Scale partnership have launched a pilot to turn new rainy-season onset and six-week forecasts into planting advice ahead of the 2026 short rains.

CGIAR24 August 20262 min read