• CGIAR

    From research to real-world impact

    Partners across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean apply CGIAR science to scale locally led solutions for food, land and water systems

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    AI in food systems

    CGIAR applies artificial intelligence responsibly to strengthen research, analysis and decision-making across global agrifood systems

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    Strengthening national food systems

    CGIAR partnerships equip national institutions and practitioners with the skills needed to build resilient and productive agrifood systems

    Fisherwoman with dried fish.
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    Rice research for Africa

    AfricaRice is a pan-African Center of Excellence advancing rice research, innovation and capacity development across the continent

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    Careers in research for development

    Join CGIAR and work with global partners to make an impact in the face of interdependent challenges in today’s world

    Leadership at IWMI/CGIAR. Mark Smith, Director of IWMI.

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.

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