Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) was created by the World Bank on May 19, 1971, with the FAO, IFAD and UNDP as cosponsors.

At the time there was widespread concern that developing countries would succumb to famine; the succesess of the Green Revolution had started in Asia and the Pearson Commission on International Development had urged that the international community undertake "intensive international effort" to support "research specializing in food supplies and tropical agriculture". CGIAR was formed for the coodination of international agricultural research with the goals of poverty reduction and achieving food security in developing countries through agricultural research.

CGIAR has 58 governmental and nongovernmental members and 17 research centers called Future Harvest Centres.

Centre	Headquarters location
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)	Cali, Colombia
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)	Bogor, Indonesia
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)	Mexico City, Mexico
International Potato Center (CIP)	Lima, Peru
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)	Aleppo, Syria
International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management/World Fish Center (ICLARM)	Penang, Malaysia
International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF)	Nairobi, Kenya
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)	Hyderabad, India
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)	Washington, D.C., United States
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)	Battaramulla , Sri Lanka
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)	Ibadan, Nigeria
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)	Nairobi, Kenya
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI)	Rome, Italy
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)	Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR)	The Hague, Netherlands
West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA)	Bouake, Côte d'Ivoire
International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP)	Montpellier, France

External link

• CGIAR Hompage