Our research and impact
The 2025-30 Research Portfolio accelerates and strengthens the implementation of CGIAR’s 2030 Strategy. It aims to raise the ambition for our science and innovation by bringing together and leveraging collective capabilities of all CGIAR Research Centers.
Overview
The 2025-30 Research Portfolio is intended to accelerate and strengthen the implementation of CGIAR’s 2030 Strategy. It aims to raise the ambition for our science and innovation by bringing together and leveraging collective capabilities of all CGIAR Research Centers.
Our Portfolio focuses on addressing 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. As we do that, we will consider how significant megatrends are linked to those challenges, including demographic changes, shifting consumption patterns, geopolitical instability, and emerging technologies.
The development of this Portfolio involved our extensive network of partners, ensuring it reflects the priorities and interests of stakeholders at local, regional, and global levels.
Building on a robust foundation of over 50 years of history of impact and thousands of ongoing projects while expanding into new areas of science, we have structured the new Portfolio around eight Science Programs, a Scaling for Impact Program, and four Accelerators designed to work synergistically.
Discover our Research Portfolio:
The first consolidated assessment of CGIAR’s contributions to outcomes and impacts across the global agrifood system has been published.
Between 2022 and 2024, CGIAR research and innovation:
- reached more than 20 million farmers, with 471 innovations in use across 62 countries
- informed US$3.3 billion of third-party investments
- shaped 315 changes to government and organizational policies.
Program & Accelerator
Deep dive into our Programs & Accelerators
The Plans of Results and Budgets (PORBs) are essential planning tools that enable CGIAR’s adaptive management approach outlining the intended delivery and resource allocation for the CGIAR 2025–2030 Portfolio. The PORBs provide a clear line of sight for managing W1/2-funded Programs and Accelerators, alongside W3 and Bilateral projects mapped to the Portfolio, ensuring successful implementation and accountability. They articulate expected annual results—including outcomes and outputs—in direct relation to key performance indicators and available resources.
PORBs ensure that intended results included in the PORBs are aligned with approved Program and Accelerators Theories of Change and provide costing information mapped to Key Performance Indicators for each High-Level Output and corresponding Area of Work, across implementing CGIAR Centers and non-CGIAR implementing partners.
The PORBs serve as a crucial mechanism for managing pooled W1/2 funding in alignment with Center allocations. They are therefore a core component of the Center-level Decision Letters, confirming fund allocations and providing the necessary detail for financial and programmatic performance oversight, as required by Article 6 of the CGIAR System Framework.
News
Publications
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Armed conflict communitybased cash transfers and social cohesion Evidence from a randomized intervention in Ethiopia
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Pork safety across Vietnams traditional markets microbial contamination and vendor knowledge attitudes and practices
Foodborne diseases are a major cause of illness in low- and middle-income countries, and most are due to fresh foods sold in traditional markets....
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The effect of teacher training and community literacy programming on teacher and student outcomes
Motivated by extremely low levels of basic reading skills in sub-Saharan Africa, we experimentally evaluate two interventions designed to enhance...
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How much do our neighbors really know The limits of communitybased targeting
Social assistance programs in developing countries often rely on local community members to identify potential beneficiaries. As community members...