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
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Tracing impact: A joint mission through Kenya’s BRAINS project
Over three days in Nakuru, Nairobi, and Kiambu, partners and funders of the BRAINS project observed how research, markets, and finance are aligning...
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Will the Iran crisis lead to another round of food price spikes?
Are we at the beginning of another period of high food prices? The short answer, in our assessment, is probably not—at least not yet. The conditions...
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Food security is crucial to global security (Globe and Mail)
Dr. Ismahane Elouafi, on the growing links between food systems, economic stability, and national security under rising global pressures.
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Generative AI-powered voice technology in agricultural advisory services: Lessons from India
Generative AI can close agricultural information gaps. A new AI voice agent offers tailored, real‑time advice to smallholder farmers, even in remote...
Publications
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Progress Report Ethiopias Partnership for Accelerating Agricultural Solutions Scaling PAASS
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Spatial and temporal risk mapping of human and porcine Taenia solium infections in Malawi a systematic review and geostatistical approach
Background: <i>Taenia solium</i>, colloquially called the pork tapeworm, is a zoonotic parasite with a human definitive host and a...
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Operational Sentinel2 System for Monthly Nearrealtime Irrigated Area Mapping in the Limpopo River Basin
Monitoring irrigated agriculture is critical in the water-scarce Limpopo River Basin (LRB). However, existing approaches are often coarse,...
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Factors influencing Newcastle disease vaccine use in village chicken flocks in rural Burkina Faso
Background: Newcastle disease (ND) is endemic in traditional poultry farming in Burkina Faso. Despite government's efforts, international...