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.
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.
Technical Reports
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.
Programs and Accelerators
Find out more about how our research is organized.
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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CIP and IRRI Promote Inclusive Precision Nutrient Management in the Mekong Delta
To support Vietnam’s one-million-hectare rice program, IRRI, CIP, and local partners hosted a participatory workshop in Can Tho to co-design...
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From research to innovative financing for scaling environmental peacebuilding
Under an innovative pilot in Caquetá, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT helped structure Colombia’s first environmental project under...
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What to expect as CGIAR heads to AFS Forum 2026
At the Africa Food Systems Forum 2026 in Kigali, CGIAR’s Scaling for Impact Program will explore how proven science can be connected with finance,...
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Building Climate-Resilient Agriculture through the Tanzania Seed Sector Development Strategy
The Tanzania Seed Sector Development Strategy, co-developed by the Government of Tanzania, CGIAR's Ukama Ustawi initiative, and USAID, provides a...
Events
Publications
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Livestock and Climate Solutions Hub Annual technical report 2025
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Progress Report Ethiopias Partnership for Accelerating Agricultural Solutions Scaling PAASS
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SW Ethiopia land use management decision tool user manual
This tool supports land use planning and management decisions in Southwest Ethiopia. It allows you to explore key raster indices, generate...
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How differential vulnerability and empowerment dynamics work to determine the agricultural performance of womenoperated smallholdings Evidence from Assam NorthEast India
Vulnerability to climatic hazards is a multifaceted phenomenon, dependent crucially on the socio-economic framework and biophysical landscape of the...