The CGIAR is the leading global agriculture research institution working towards creating sustainable agricultural practices a reality through research and innovation. The CGIAR 2030
Research and Innovation Strategy states that the “CGIAR will contribute to collective global targets for transformation of food, land, and water systems across local, regional, and global levels.In action, CGIAR plays a unique role in forming global research partnerships to work directly with national agricultural research systems to research and develop technologies to address challenges in agriculture.
The following analysis is based on data from the current CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs). A critical caveat is that data from three important CRPs: MAIZE, WHEAT AND RICE were used for the analysis of Sustainable Agriculture Intensification funding, but not for innovation stage analyses (e.g., innovation stage and value chain) – due to insufficient data available on these CRPs. Collectively these three CRPs represent an estimated 19% of CGIAR funding in 2018 and 2019.
The objective of this paper is to show how Value Chain Analysis for Development (VCA4D) applied sustainable development concept for value chain analysis to establish a manageable set of criteria allowing to provide quantitative information, which is desperately lacking in...
Rice is produced in other parts of Angola, but not in the area around Bailundo, though conditions are favourable and there is much local demand. Building on the provision of technical expertise from other organisations, CDAIS is adding capacity development...
“CDAIS does not give us money, but it opens spaces for cacao producers, associations and industry to work together” says Sergio Segovia, president of the ASOPROCCAN association. Actors in the cocoa chain of Atlántida on the north coast are, thanks...
Small millets, a group of highly nutritious food, have taken a back seat in the Indian agriculture landscape in recent years, due to government policies and failings in the value chain. In this commentary, the unusual decline of small millets...
L’équipe d’Analyse et de Cartographie de la Vulnérabilité (VAM, Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping) du Bureau Régional pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest et Centrale (RBD, Regional Bureau Dakar) du Programme Alimentaire Mondial (PAM) a lancé une initiative régionale sur le Genre et...