Commemorating Past Achievements and Preparing to Meet New Challenges
Since the CGIAR’s establishment in 1971, its expanding agenda of research has led to important gains in agricultural productivity as well as natural resource management and food policy across the developing world. This remarkable 40-year performance provides a firm foundation for a forceful response to the daunting challenges that agriculture and rural environments will face over the next 40 years.
A 40th anniversary celebration was held on July 6th, 2011 from 9:15am to 11am in the Preston Auditorium at the World Bank, Washington, DC.
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Photos of event held at the World Bank, July 6th, 2011, Washington, DC
Robert B. Zoellick, President, World Bank Group.
Inger Andersen, Chair, CGIAR Fund Council.
Mariano Ruiz-Funes Macedo, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, Mexico.
Carlos Perez del Castillo, Chair, CGIAR Consortium Board.
Jonathan Wadsworth, Executive Secretary of the CGIAR Fund Council.
Paul Weisenfeld, Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Food Security, USAID.
Ephraim Mukisira, Director, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute.
Thomas Lumpkin, Director General, CIMMYT.
Audience at the event.
