• CGIAR

    Better policy. Better outcomes

    CGIAR's Policy Innovations Program helps governments turn evidence into smarter policies, stronger institutions and better decisions.

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  • CGIAR

    Why investing in agriculture and food systems matters

    Inclusive agricultural development is two to three times more effective at reducing poverty than investments in other sectors.

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  • CGIAR

    Where CGIAR impact comes to life

    Explore the results behind more than 1,000 innovations and 3,400 knowledge products delivering measurable impact worldwide.

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  • CGIAR

    Research powering better food policy

    Discover how IFPRI generates the evidence that helps reduce poverty, improve nutrition and strengthen food systems.

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    Careers in research for development

    Join CGIAR and help transform food, land and water systems with partners around the world.

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Our work

Our research portfolio addresses major global challenges such as climate change, gender and social inequalities, poor-quality diets, rural poverty, environmental degradation, and issues stemming from fragility, conflict, and violence.

Our global presence

CGIAR works across more than 70 countries. This global footprint allows us to develop the partnerships that make our research possible.

Dashboards and finance reports

CGIAR is the world’s largest public global agricultural innovation network, producing science for development in an accountable and transparent way.

Impact in numbers

CGIAR is the world’s largest, publicly funded agrifood research network. Our ambition is a food and nutrition-secure future that leaves no one behind. 

20

Million farmers reached

Innovations from CGIAR's 20222024 portfolio are used by smallholder farmers around the world. 

315

Policy changes

Between 20222024, CGIAR research shaped government and organizational policies.

300

Million eating biofortified crops

CGIAR's work has a measurable impact on human nutrition, health and development.

US$1.34

Trillion generated

CGIAR crop technologies have produced cumulative economic benefits since the 1960s.

10:1

Return on investment

Studies have shown that CGIAR is among the best investments donors can make in our common future.

3,000+

Plant species conserved

CGIAR genebanks are custodians of the world’s most diverse publicly available crop collections.

Our partners

CGIAR works with more than 3,000 partners around the world to advance the transformation of food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis.

Southeast Asia and the Pacific

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