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    Science for food systems under greatest pressure

    CGIAR's Food Frontiers and Security Program focuses on fragile, urban and island food systems to strengthen food to strengthen opportunities.

    2015 05 XX River food systems and rural livelihoods in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam (IWMI).
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    Better diets start with better foods

    CGIAR research is helping make safe, nutritious and affordable diets more accessible while strengthening markets and livelihoods.

    Better diets start with better foods.
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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.

    2024 04 05 ClimBeR canal handover at Chrystler's farm, Kotagala, Sri Lanka (Pradeep Liyanage).
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    Growing opportunity through African agriculture

    IITA advances agricultural science and innovation to improve food and nutrition security, create livelihoods, and protect nature across Africa.

    2013 12 XX Water use, irrigation and farmlands in SNNPR, Ethiopia (Petterik Wiggers).
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    Transforming agriculture in the drylands

    ICRISAT advances dryland farming and food systems to tackle hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and environmental degradation across Asia and beyond.

    Transforming agriculture in the drylands.
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    Careers in research for development

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

    2025 05 20 Wetland ecosystem in Kalu Oya Sri Lanka (Nirasha Perera).

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