... Key staff and major partners and their roles Major partners and their roles: Regional and national climate change, agriculture and food security research and non research organizations (action research partners ‐ NARES, Universities, ... CCAFS seeks to help both researchers and research users to enhance their own capacity to demand, conduct, use and critique research on the inter‐relationships among climate change, agriculture and food security. For researchers, the CCAFS objective ... Foundation (participatory action research for climate risk management in Vaishali, Bihar); National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, India (climate analogues and germplasm evaluation and conservation); Bioversity International (climate analogues and germplasm evaluation and conservation); ...