| The CGIAR recently approved a set of reforms that will fundamentally change the institutional structure and governance of the CGIAR. Over the course of 2010 these reforms are being implemented. The information below reflects the old governance structure and will be updated. For further information on the new model, please click here. |
The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
(CGIAR) created in 1971, is an informal association of sixty-four
independent public and private sector Members, from South
and North, with the World Bank, FAO, IFAD and UNDP as Cosponsors.
The CGIAR maintains a global, non-political perspective.
The CGIAR fulfills its mission primarily by formulating a
research agenda to be carried out through a network of 15
international agricultural research centers.. The CGIAR provides the Centers
with strategic guidance, as well as financial support. CGIAR members contributed US $531 million in 2008.
Decisions on research policy are made, and research programs
are carried out, in consultation and collaboration with many
partners in the global agricultural research system.
The Centers conduct research that generates global and regional
public goods to benefit the poor in developing countries,
by increasing income and improving livelihoods, without harming
the environment. The CGIAR is committed to harnessing the
best in science from traditional knowledge to cutting edge
developments in the sciences.
Productivity and natural resource management are the twin
pillars of CGIAR-supported research. The CGIAR contributes
to global efforts to preserve plant genetic resources by maintaining,
in trust for humankind, gene banks that contain over 600,000
germplasm samples.
The CGIAR supports Center activities that sustain Conventions
such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention
to Combat Desertification, the Framework Convention on Climate
Change, and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources
that are related to its mission. The Centers collaborate with
like-minded institutions in undertaking appropriate initiatives
to implement the provisions of these Conventions through the
production of global public goods.
The CGIAR on its own, as well as in association with partners,
engages in public advocacy of science-based approaches to
solving some of the world's most pressing development problems:
reducing hunger, improving human nutrition and health, protecting
the environment, and reducing poverty.
The CGIAR supports institution building and capacity building-globally,
regionally, and nationally-to strengthen the evolving international
agricultural research community, and enhance the professional
development of agricultural scientists in developing countries.
Some 75,000 scientists have been trained at or through the
Centers.
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