# 104 The lessons from CGIAR

# 104 The lessons from CGIAR

From New Ventures Podcast by Sanjoy Sanyal

October 18, 2025 · 55 min · Season 1 · Episode 104

About this episode

The episode discusses the funding crisis in agriculture amidst climate change and the need for improved practices and technologies.

What is the problem ? The funding crisis will exacerbate at the exact time when the impacts of climate change will aggravate. What is the solution ? Improved practices, irrigation, seeds and preservation of nature. What is the evidence? Seeds resilient to climate change which show no yield loss are being developed and being adopted by farmers. What is the caveat? Emissions in sectors such as energy and transport have to come down first. If they don’t the agriculture will come up against hard limits to adaptation. What should organisations do ? Organisations both in the public and private sector, need to accelerate research and deployment of climate technologies. Sections Section 1: First 10 minutes : About Aditi and how her work led to policy changes in India. Section 2: Next 40 minutes: About CGIAR’s work in climate change. Host : Sanjoy Sanyal , Founder Regain Paradise www.regainparadise.org Guest : Aditi Mukherji , Principal Scientist International Livestock Research https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditi-mukherji-696bbb2b/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Cv7woCMAAAAJ&hl=en https://www.cgiar.org/aditi-mukherji/ Date : 18th October 2025

People in this episode

Host: Sanjoy Sanyal

Guest: Aditi Mukherji

Topics covered

  • climate change
  • agriculture
  • funding crisis
  • CGIAR
  • research and deployment of climate technologies

Keywords

  • irrigation
  • seeds
  • nature preservation
  • emissions reduction

Mentioned in this episode

Products: climate technologies

Places: India

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