
Research
Introduction
Today, research and innovation in food, land and water systems are crucial for a sustainable, climate-resilient world free from hunger and malnutrition. New approaches are needed to ensure we can achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. A more integrated and impactful CGIAR is rising to the challenge, with a fresh portfolio of Initiatives to deliver a new 10-year strategy.
Covering all research for development programming across CGIAR, the 2030 Research and Innovation Strategy provides an overview of how CGIAR will develop and deploy its capacities, assets, and skills to address priority global and regional challenges with partners over the decade.
Learn more about CGIAR's 2030 research and innovation strategy
The CGIAR 2022–24 Investment Prospectus provides a body of research and innovation — a set of CGIAR Research Initiatives to be supported with pooled funding — to deliver on the five Impact Areas set out in the Strategy.
Learn more about CGIAR's 2022–2024 investment prospectus
Action Areas
CGIAR strives for global and regional impact by organizing its research along three Action Areas in which accelerated innovation is required to create sustainable and resilient food, land, and water systems and to meet SDG targets. The three Action Areas build on the firm foundation of CGIAR’s traditional strengths in genetics and farming systems with a more ambitious agenda around food, land and water systems.
Impact Areas
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CGIAR research aims to create real, lasting, and positive impact in five key Impact Areas.
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CLIMATE ADAPTATION & MITIGATION
Improving small-scale producers’ resilience and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from food systems.
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ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH & BIODIVERSITYIncreasing productivity in food systems while staying within environmental boundaries and maintaining biodiversity.
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GENDER EQUALITY, YOUTH & SOCIAL INCLUSION
Closing the gender gap and enhancing opportunities for youth in food, land, and water systems.
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NUTRITION, HEALTH & FOOD SECURITY
Ending hunger and enabling safe, affordable, healthy diets for the world's most vulnerable people.
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POVERTY REDUCTION, LIVELIHOODS & JOBS
Building on a 50-year track record of lifting millions out of poverty.
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Research Initiatives
CGIAR Initiatives are major, prioritized areas of investment that bring capacity from within and beyond CGIAR to bear on major challenges. The Initiatives build on a track record of 50 years of research and collaboration to accelerate innovative solutions to achieve impact aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Use the Portfolio Explorer to search Initiatives by country, region, SDG and more.
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To view CGIAR's previous portfolio, covering the period 2017–2021, click here.
Research Centers
CGIAR Research Centers are non-profit research organizations conducting innovative research. Home to more than 9,000 scientists, researchers, technicians and staff, the Centers work to transform food, land and water systems in a climate crisis. Click on a Center below to learn more.
- Africa Rice Center
- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
- CGIAR System Organization
- International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
- International Potato Center (CIP)
- International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
- The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
- World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
- WorldFish
Featured publications
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CIFOR-ICRAF Annual Report 2021: Harnessing the power of forests, trees and agroforestry
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)20.09.22 -
CIFOR-ICRAF Annual Report 2020: Building forward better
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)20.09.22 -
2022 Global food policy report: Climate change and food systems
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)17.05.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Nutrition
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2021 Global food policy report: Transforming food systems after COVID-19
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)07.05.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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Enhancing Smallholder Farmers’ Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties Through Multi-Stakeholder Platforms
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)28.01.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Agricultural development: New perspectives in a changing world
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)21.01.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
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An evolving paradigm of agricultural mechanization development: How much can Africa learn from Asia?
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)05.12.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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Assessing Worldview-3 multispectral imaging abilities to map the tree diversity in semi-arid parklands
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)10.11.20 -
CIFOR Annual Report 2019: Forests in a time of crises
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)14.07.20 -
Actions to Transform Food Systems Under Climate Change
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)10.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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