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    Science that works for everyone

    CGIAR's Gender Equality and Inclusion Accelerator advances gender equality and inclusion through innovation across food, land, and water systems.

    Women's Group Milling Groudnuts Into Paste. Photo by CGIAR.
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    Empowering the people behind food systems

    CGIAR research breaks down barriers to resources and decision-making, helping build more inclusive and equitable food systems.

    Empowering the people behind food systems. Photo by CGIAR.
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    Where CGIAR impact comes to life

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

    Fish angler on the kafue river_RRB_Zambia. Photo Agness Chileya, WorldFish.
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    Better rice, better futures

    IRRI advances rice research to improve nutrition, food security, and livelihoods for rice-dependent communities.

    Better rice, better futures. Photo by CGIAR.
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    Careers in research for development

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

    Women scientist flying UAV for drone-based phenotyping. Photo by ICRISAT/CGIAR.

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 2022–2024 portfolio are used by smallholder farmers around the world. 

315

Policy changes

Between 2022–2024, 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