The organizational challenge of international agricultural research: The fifty-year odyssey of the CGIAR

Transforming agricultural research and development systems to meet 21st Century needs for climate action

“…The journal Food Policy has published a number of viewpoints that detail the type of research that CGIAR should focus on (Coffman et al, 2020;Haddad, 2020;Nelson, 2020;Thornton et al, 2022). Lynam et al (2024) outline organization changes required specifically for CGIAR, while Conti et al (2024) address this issue more broadly for agricultural research organizations. Simultaneously, CGIAR has not escaped criticism.…”