Founded by 18 countries and organizations in May 1971, the CGIAR is today the world’s largest global agricultural innovation network. The CGIAR has an annual research portfolio of just over US$900 million with 11,000 staff working in more than 70 countries around the world. The CGIAR provides a participatory mechanism for national governments, multilateral funding and development agencies and leading private foundations to finance some of the world’s most innovative agricultural research.
Projects

True Cost Accounting
True Cost Accounting (TCA) is the systematic measurement and valuation of environmental, social, health, and economic costs to inform sustainable choices by governments and food……

BRIGHT Sri Lanka
In 2022-2023, Sri Lanka experienced its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948. A debt crisis accompanied by severe foreign exchange shortages resulted in 80%……
Events

Can Sustainable Livestock Systems and Alternative Proteins Address the Climate Crisis?
Virtual Event: November 7, 2023 – 9:30 AM- 11:00 AM EDT. This CGIAR seminar will delve into the report’s findings and recommendations around livestock and alternative proteins, and identify promising initiatives and technologies that can be pursued in order to advance on three priorities outlined in the Agricultural Breakthrough report.

Food Security Trends and Resilience-Building Priorities
Virtual Event: September 1, 2023 – 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM EDT. The series will begin with a stock take of food security trends, review the impact of recent shocks to food systems, highlight the need for renewed efforts to strengthen food systems resilience and identify priority investments and actions.

Release of the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Ghana
Event: August 24, 2023 – 5:30 AM- 7:00 AM EDT. IFPRI is co-hosting the release of the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Ghana under the Nexus Project in partnership with the Ghana Statistical Service and the Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research.
Blogs

Signaling, screening, or sunk costs? Experimental evidence on how prices affect agricultural technology adoption in East Africa
An avenue to improved productivity.








