The CGIAR is a strategic
alliance of members, partners and international agricultural
centers that mobilizes science to benefit the poor.
photo: IITA
September 2008
Making the Most of Musa
As consumers throughout the world face higher food prices, CGIAR scientists and their partners are moving on many fronts to strengthen food security, including unprecedented efforts to enhance the production and marketing of banana and plantain (Musa spp.) in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more...
Understanding and Containing Global Food Price Inflation.
Soaring food prices have put the CGIAR on high alert, and the international research Centers it supports are responding vigorously on several fronts. Read more.
July 8, 2008. Toyako, Japan. World leaders at the 2008 G8 Summit issued a Statement on Global Food Security that includes a commitment to the promotion of agricultural research and development through the CGIAR. The CGIAR welcomes the statement by the G8 and expresses gratitude to Japan in its leadership role as the host country and president of the 2008 G8 Summit.
Global Climate Change: Can Agriculture Cope?
No one understands better than farmers how the weather, especially when it takes a turn for the worse, can affect people and their land. That’s why farmers around the world have always talked and worried about the weather obsessively. But now, emerging weather patterns have a lot of other people worried, too. Read more..
Global Climate Change: Can Agriculture Cope?
