• CGIAR

    The future of crop breeding

    CGIAR's Breeding for Tomorrow Program is developing climate-resilient, nutritious, and market-preferred crop varieties to feed growing populations.

    Traditional method of rice planting. Rice farmers divide young rice plants and replant in flooded rice fields in South East Asia.
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    Evidence for healthier ecosystems

    CGIAR research helps restore ecosystems, conserve biodiversity, and improve natural resource management while supporting vulnerable communities.

    Multifunctional landscapes of agriculture.
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    Where CGIAR impact comes to life

    Explore CGIAR’s global results, from 1,000+ innovations and 3,400+ knowledge products to measurable impact across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

    Cash exchange between a Latin buyer and a Latin seller in a Mesoamerican market.
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    Science behind resilient staple foods

    CIMMYT and partners across the Global South develop innovative maize, wheat, and other cereal solutions that strengthen food systems.

    A farmer displays harvested maize in Pase, Upper West Region, Ghana, on Oct. 6, 2024.Photo: Augustus Addo for IWMI.
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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.

    Farmer in front of his artificial lake for agricultural use in Bekaa, Lebanon.

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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