CGIAR Contributions to Impact in Agrifood Systems: Learnings from 2022–24
The first three-year assessment of CGIAR’s impact is underway, with publication planned for 30th June 2025. It will be based on the most comprehensive collection of evidence yet developed, demonstrating the real-world changes stimulated by CGIAR’s research and partnership work.
Further impact reports are planned for publication in 2028 and 2031.
Report Highlights
- Synthesis of over 100 rigorous impact assessment studies published between 2022 and 2024.
- Global benefits are assessed, such as the value of CGIAR crop breeding programs and the CGIAR’s contribution to scientific research.
- Impacts and outcomes were described for each continental region in which CGIAR works: Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
- Major lines of work, impacts, and outcomes described for each of the five areas in which CGIAR seeks to achieve durable change: poverty, food security and nutrition, climate change adaptation and mitigation, environmental health and biodiversity, and social equity.
- The report will be published alongside an Impact Compendium, which will provide an online searchable repository of CGIAR’s impact assessment studies, to be updated annually.
Who should read the report?
- Donors and Funding Agencies: Seeking evidence of the benefit of investment in CGIAR.
- Policymakers: Looking for effective agrifood innovations and best practices to guide policy decisions or foster collaborations with CGIAR.
- Researchers and Agricultural Practitioners: Identify areas of mutual interest and opportunities for joint initiatives in agrifood and sustainability sectors.
- NGOs and Development Partners: Dedicated to scalable agrifood impacts and leveraging proven strategies for local and regional transformations.
Acknowledgments
We gratefully acknowledge our funders whose contributions via the CGIAR Trust Fund and bilateral projects make this critical research possible. Photo: ©2010 CIAT/Neil Palmer