The CGIAR at 40 : Institutional Evolution of the World’s Premier Agricultural Research Network
The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has been one of the most successful research-for-development organizations over the past 40 years. The $11 billion invested by CGIAR donor members in research conducted by the in...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/01/25816481/cgiar-40-institutional-evolution-world’s-premier-agricultural-research-network http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23845 |
| Summary: | The Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has been one of the most
successful research-for-development organizations over the
past 40 years. The $11 billion invested by CGIAR donor
members in research conducted by the international Centers
under its umbrella has yielded many multiples of that sum in
economic benefits to developing and emerging countries.
Annual economic benefits of research on rice in Asia alone
are equivalent to the total investment made by CGIAR donors
over 4 decades, leaving aside benefits in other continents
and from other research conducted by CGIAR institutions. The
CGIAR‘s success is due in part to the way it was organized.
The Group itself was an informal forum for dialogue among
donor members about research priorities, investment options,
and the continuing relevance and effectiveness of the
institutions supported. The international centers
constituted the core of the CGIAR. Each was (and still is)
an autonomous international organization governed by an
international board. The Group and the Centers were
originally advised by the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)
of distinguished scientists from developing and developed
countries, each appointed as an individual. The Group’s
activities were facilitated by its Secretariat based at the
World Bank in Washington, DC, and TAC’s activities by
another secretariat based at the food and agriculture
organization in Rome. |
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