Our research and impact

This report brings together results from across CGIAR's Research Portfolio to show what we achieved in 2025 and how our work is adding up to real-world impact. 

Based on results reported Iin 2025, CGIAR science and innovations: 

• benefited over 12.8 million people, primarily farmers, and more than 770,000 consumers accessed diverse and nutritious foods 
• informed USD 4.8 billion in major investment decisions, leveraging partnerships with multilateral institutions 
• informed 82 policy changes in 41 countries with notable reach in Kenya, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia. 

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. 

Plans of Results and Budgets (PORBs) are essential planning and portfolio management tools that support CGIAR’s adaptive management approach across the 2025–2030 Portfolio. They provide a consolidated view of planned results and associated resource allocations for W1/W2-funded Programs and Accelerators, linking planned delivery to their approved Theories of Change including High-Level Outputs, Areas of Work, and Key Performance Indicators. Therefore, the PORBs ensure that intended results are aligned with approved Program and Accelerator 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 also serve as a crucial mechanism for managing pooled W1/W2 funding in alignment with Center allocations. They therefore form a core component of the Center-level Decision Letters, confirming W1/2 fund allocations and providing the necessary information for financial and programmatic performance oversight, as required by Article 6 of the CGIAR System Framework.

The PORBs are published within the CGIAR website twice annually, aligned with the CGIAR Planning and Adapt cycles. That is, following the Planning cycle, the subsequent Adapt cycle provides an opportunity for Program and Accelerator teams to update their PORBs as planning assumptions, funding allocations, priorities, and implementation arrangements evolve, while maintaining a consistent view of intended results and associated resources.

The PORBs provide a clear line of sight for managing W1/W2-funded Programs and Accelerators, alongside W3 and Bilateral projects mapped to the Portfolio. For the 2026 Adapt PORBs, however, W3/Bilateral projects were not included in the published PORBs because the mapping of these projects to Programs and Accelerators had not yet been finalized at the time of publication. Similarly, some additional W2 funder budgets confirmed during the year, but after completion of the Adapt period, were not reflected in the published PORBs.

Since publication, Programs and Accelerators have completed the W3/Bilateral project mapping and, where applicable, incorporated the additional W2 funder budgets that were confirmed later in the year. While the updated, formatted PORBs have not been published, the detailed updated information is available in the Portfolio Explorer. This provides a more complete view of the 2026 Portfolio, including the final 2026 funder budget commitments and the mapped W3 and Bilateral projects. Accordingly, the 2026 annual financial and technical end of year reports will be against the updated PORBs information, with the final 2026 technical reports also capturing the reported results from the mapped W3 and Bilateral projects.