In this presentation, I have described all the CGIAR research centers along with their headquarter and major functions. Hope you like it!

1. Prepared by:
Anil Balchhaudi
M. Sc. Agriculture (1st Semester)
Department of Agronomy
Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU)

2.  CGIAR (Consultative Group for International
Agricultural Research) is a global partnership
that unites international organizations
engaged in research for a food-secured
future dedicated to reducing poverty,
enhancing food and nutrition security and
improving natural resources
 As challenges became more complex in the
years since it was set up in 1971, CGIAR
founded or adopted new Centers in order to
tackle them

3.  In the 1990s the number of Centers expanded to
19 to deal with all of the world’s major food
crops, livestock, fish, health and nutrition,
climate change, soils, water, forests, and
biodiversity.
 Some subsequently merged and there are now 15
Centers.
 The CGIAR Consortium of International
Agricultural Research Centers was established in
April 2010 to coordinate and support the work of
the 15 international agricultural research
centers supported by CGIAR

4. Headquarter: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Its main functions are:
 To contribute to poverty alleviation and food
security in Africa, through research,
development and partnership
activities aimed at increasing the
productivity and profitability of the rice
sector in ways that ensure the sustainability
of the farming environment
 To develop and introduce new rice seed
varieties that are suitable for African
conditions

5. Headquarter: Maccarese-Stazione, Fiumicino,
Rome, Italy
Its main functions are:
 To provide scientific evidence, management
practices and policy options to use and
safeguard agricultural biodiversity to attain
sustainable global food and nutrition security
 To work with partners in low-income
countries in different regions where
agricultural and tree biodiversity can
contribute to improved nutrition, resilience,
productivity and climate change adaptation

6. Headquarter: Bogor City, West Java, Indonesia
Its main functions are:
 To conducting innovative research,
developing partners’ capacity and actively
engaging in dialogue with all stakeholders to
inform policies and practices that affect
forests and people
 To supply the evidence needed for policy
decisions that enhance the contribution of
forests to human well-being and prosperity
and that make use of forests and their
services and products to reduce poverty

7. Headquarter: Beirut, Lebanon
Its major functions are:
 To conserve biodiversity as well as crop
improvement of mandate crops viz. durum and
bread wheat, barley, chickpea, lentil, faba bean,
grass pea, and forage and pasture crops
 To improve livelihoods, and reducing risk by
intensifying and diversifying traditional production
systems
 To improve of water-use efficiency in agriculture,
rangeland issues, and small-ruminant production to
combat desertification and land degradation

8. Headquarter: Palmira, Colombia
Its major functions are:
 To develop more resilient, productive, and profitable
varieties of cassava and common bean, together with
improved tropical forages for livestock
 Increase prosperity and improve human nutrition in
the tropics through research-based solutions in
agriculture and the environment
 Making smallholder agriculture more competitive,
inclusive, and market oriented through improvements
in agricultural value chains and sustainable practices
 To boost rice production and the competitiveness of
the region’s rice sector in Latin America and the
Caribbean

9. Headquarter: Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Its major functions are:
 To conduct research for crop improvement on six
mandate crops viz. chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut,
sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet in order to
improve food availability in drought prone areas of
the tropics
 To serves as a repository for the collection of
germplasm of the six mandate crops and five small
millet viz. foxtail millet, kodo millet, kodo millet,
little millet, proso millet and barnyard millet
 To conduct research under four themes viz. agro-
ecosystems development, harnessing plant
biotechnology and bioinformatics, crop improvement
and management, and institutions, Markets, policy
and Impacts

10. Headquarter: Washington DC, USA
Its major functions are:
 To lead two CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs): Policies,
Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and Agriculture for
Nutrition and Health (A4NH)
 To measure the Millennium Development Goals project and
support governments in the formulation and
implementation of development strategies
 To focus on five strategic research areas:
 Fostering Climate-Resilient and Sustainable Food Supply
 Promoting Healthy Diets and Nutrition for All
 Building Inclusive and Efficient Markets, Trade Systems,
and Food Industry
 Transforming Agricultural and Rural Economies
 Strengthening Institutions and Governance

11. Headquarter: Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Its major functions are:
 To focus on grain and legume improvement
system that address staple food crops,
including banana and plantain, casssava,
cowpea, maize, soyabean and yam to ensure
a food secure future for sub-Saharan Africa

12. Headquarter: co-hosted by Nairobi, Kenya and Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
Its major functions are:
 To addresses seven global livestock development challenges
including vaccine and diagnostic technologies for orphan animal
diseases, animal genetic resources, climate change – adaptation
and mitigation, emerging diseases, Sanitary and phytosanitary
(SPS) and market access within broader market opportunities for
the poor, sustainable intensification in smallholder crop-livestock
systems and vulnerability of marginal systems and peoples
 To conduct major research programs on:
 Animal and Human Health
 Feed and Forage Development
 Livestock Genetics (LiveGene)
 Policies, Institutions and Livelihoods
 Sustainable Livestock Systems
 Impact at Scale
 Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA)-ILRI Hub

13. Headquarter: El Batán , Texcoco, Mexico
Its major functions are:
 Developing and improving access to stress-tolerant
varieties
 high yielding and adapted to withstand specific
environmental constraints, such as infertile soils,
drought, insects, and diseases.
 Additional efforts focus on a variety of agricultural
aspects such as proper seed storage, natural resource
management, value chains, the benefits of using
improved seed, and appropriate machine use and
access.
 CIMMYT’s germplasm bank is home to humanity’s
largest collection of maize and wheat varieties made
freely available to scientists, researchers and farmers
around the world

14. Headquarter: Avenida La Molina , Lima, Peru
Its major functions are:
 To develop nutritious, end-user-preferred, varieties
with traits which include early maturation, tolerance
to heat, drought and salinity, and resistance to
emerging pests and diseases
 To enhance the conservation and optimize the
utilization of potato and sweet potato biodiversity for
the future by the collection of germplasm in
genebank
 To intensify, diversify, and strengthen the resilience
of agri-food systems with potato through improved
and more gender-inclusive value chains in the current
and potential potato-producing regions of developing
countries

15. Headquarter: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
Its major functions are:
 To speed up the translation of targeted innovations into the local
rice value chain through partnerships, education, and technology
to facilitate appropriate adoption, maximize impact in the
shortest time, and produce substantive benefits for rice farmers,
producers, and consumers
 To develop environmentally sustainably solutions for rice systems
 To improve health through safe and nutriously enhanced rice
 To shape future rice value chains and policies
 To catalyze innovation for health, equity and resilence
 To integrate breeding and crop management solutions for
intensive systems
 To harness rice genetic diversity to accelerate impact
 To enable data driven decision support for rice agri-good systems
 To build resilence of rice-based syestems in marginal
environments

16. Headquarter: Pelawatte, Battaramulla, Colombo,
Sri Lanka
Its major functions are:
 To carry out research on aquatic agricultural
system, climate change, how water is used and
how it can be used more productively, water
quality and its relationship to health and
environment
 To provide evidence-based solutions to
sustainably manage water and land resources for
food security, people’s livelihoods and the
environment


17. Headquarter: Nairobi, Kenya
Its major functions are:
 To harness the multiple benefits trees provide for
agriculture, livelihoods, resilience and the future of our
planet, from farmers’ fields through to continental scales
 To addresses many of the issues being tackled by the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically those
that aim to eradicate hunger, reduce poverty, provide
affordable and clean energy, protect life on land, and
combat climate change
 To conduct globally significant agro forestry research in
and for all of the developing tropics
 To provide knowledge that enables governments,
development agencies and farmers to utilize the power of
trees to make farming and livelihoods more
environmentally, socially and economically sustainable at
scales

18. Headquarter: Penang, Malaysia
Its major functions are:
 To enable sustainable increases in livelihoods
from aquaculture production without creating
adverse socio-economic or environmental
impacts
 To increase the availability,
access and consumption of nutrient-rich, safe
fish, especially for women of reproductive age,
infants and young children
 To conduct research on sustainable aquaculture,
resilent small-scale fisheries and enhancing the
contributions of fish to nutrition of the poor