CGIAR - Key Persons
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- Interim Director General, IRRI
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- Regional Director, Central and West Asia and North Africa, and Director General, ICARDA
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- Interim Executive Managing Director
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- Global Director, Innovative Finance and Resource Mobilization
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- Director General, Bioversity International, and CGIAR System Management Board Member
Impacts have been recorded in important areas of sustainable agriculture - agroforestry, breeding, resilient farming methods, fish and livestock development to name but a few - leading to sizeable increases in farmer incomes, and improved nutrition. On this latter critical issue, a welcome accolade came in 2017 from the MacArthur Foundation, which contributed
a grant of USD 15 million to the HarvestPlus Biofortification Program, enabling it to advance its ground-breaking research on developing methods to enrich some basic staples with micronutrients - work that is now being scaled up through novel alliances with the private sector, government, and civil society.
The release of more than 200 new improved crop varieties and other technical innovations (CGIAR Innovations in 2017), the publication of approximately 1,750 peer-reviewed research papers of which more than 60% are openly accessible (CRP Publications in 2017), and the continued massive genomic characterization of crop accessions stored in 11 CGIAR Genebanks are just some of the successes scored by CGIAR Research Programs and Platforms in 2017.
The year ended on a high note with CGIAR receiving a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Momentum for Change award for groundbreaking science on climate-informed advisories and big data, the results of which are now being rolled out to hundreds of thousands of farmers in Colombia and Honduras.
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- Senior Director, Livestock - Based Systems, Director General, ILRI, and Managing Director, Resilient Agri - Food Systems ( a.I. )
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- Regional Director, West and Central Africa, and Director General, AfricaRice
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- Thematic Leader of Foresight and Applied Economics for Impact Evaluation, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
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- Executive Director, CGIAR System Organization
Agricultural research is a smart and critical investment - one that global society neglects at its peril. As world events again demonstrated in 2017, poverty and hunger have ramifications that are far-reaching and potentially explosive, and sustainable food production itself is inextricably linked to a host of factors that include environmental conservation, climate change, market access and equitable conditions for both women and men.
With a strong asset base in terms of skills, science and worldwide reach thanks to its unique research for development partnership network, CGIAR is uniquely positioned to respond to today's pressing global challenges of food insecurity, environmental degradation, unequal prosperity, a changing climate, and the nutrition-related disease burden. Producing more nutritious food with a lower environmental footprint requires collective action and opening up new opportunities for dynamic innovation.
Agricultural research offers the opportunity for a single investment that provides multiple benefits. Investment in CGIAR expertise and our unique assets will ensure we can provide long-term value to the world.
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- Senior Director, Aquatic Food Systems, and Director General, WorldFish
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- Manager, Media
- Media and Communications
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- Global Director, People and Culture
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- Leader, Social and Nutritional Sciences Division
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- Interim Managing Director, Regions and Partnership
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- Senior Evaluation Manager
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- Senior Manager, Programs & Administration
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- Team Leader, Outreach and Engagement
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- Regional Director, Latin America and the Caribbean
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- Managing Director, Systems Transformation, and Director General, IFPRI
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- Global Director, Partnerships and Advocacy, and Director General, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
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- Senior Director, Agriculture, World Bank and Chair, CGIAR System Council
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- Global Communications Manager
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- SPIA Special Initiative Member
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- Managing Director, Communications and Outreach
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- Chairman, CGIAR System Management Board
CGIAR is dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resources. The challenge is to attract the funding that is the foundation for all CGIAR research.
Moving forward, CGIAR will continue to sharpen its focus on how to increase relevance and impact in a rapidly changing context, where business-as-usual approaches are no longer an option.
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- Researcher - Economist: Impact Evaluation & Impact Assessment, IWMI
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- Global Director, Business Operations and Finance
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- Senior Director, Water Systems, and Director General, IWMI
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- Head of Communications and Knowledge Management
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- Regional Director, East and Southern Africa
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- Advisor, ISDC Secretariat
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- Director - Communications
- Media and Communications
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- Program Leader, SPIA Secretariat
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- Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
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- Global Director, Legal and Governance, CGIAR Global General Counsel, and Managing Director, Institutional Strategy and Systems ( a.I. )
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- Head of Communications
- Media and Communications
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- Regional Director, Continental Africa, and Director General, IITA
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- Senior Director, Agrobiodiversity and Urban Food Systems, and Director General
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- Managing Director, Genetic Innovation
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- Regional Director, South Asia, and Regional Director, South - East Asia and the Pacific ( a.I. )
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- SPIA Special Initiative Member