The CGIAR at 31 : celebrating its achievements, facing its challenges
Abadzi, Helen
The consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) was established in 1971 to scale up years of effort by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in supporting four international agricultural research centers, in Colombia, Mexico, Nigeria, and the Philippines. As the first global program to receive grants from the World Bank's net income, the CGIAR's original mission was a strategic, science-based focus on increasing "the pile of rice on the plates of food-short consumers," as characterized by former Chairman David Hopper. It was to use the best science in advanced countries to develop technologies for the benefit of food deficit countries and populations. Today it supports 16 international Centers, and from an initial 18, its membership has expanded to 62, including 24 developing and transition economies
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