Welcome to Policy Pathways, a new podcast giving a platform to researchers and policymakers working to solve sustainable development challenges and offer policy solutions that can advance system transformation in food, land, and water! Focused on research by CGIAR's National Policies Strategies Initiative (NPS), Policy Pathways will take you across the globe from India to Colombia and beyond. In this first episode, NPS Initiative co-lead and International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Principal Researcher, Alan Nicol, and Senior Scientist at Alliance of Biodiversity and CIAT, Augusto Castro Nunez, sat down with our hosts Chhavi Sachdev and Raissa Okoi to discuss the methodology and goals of the NPS policy coherence reports.