Banoth Madhu: Role of CGIAR System in Germplasm Conservation and Exchange. Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Formation: 1971, Type; Partnership of funders and international agricultural research centers, Purpose; To reduce poverty and hunger, improve human health and nutrition, and enhance ecosystem resilience through high-quality international agricultural research, partnership and leadership. Headquarters; Montpellier, France, Main organ; CGIAR Fund, CGIAR Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers, Independent Science and Partnership Council

1. Role of CGIAR system in the
germplasm conservation and exchange
Banoth Madhu
Ph.D Research Scholar
Genetics and Plant Breeding
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore

2. Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
Formation
Type
1971
Partnership of funders and international
agricultural research centers
Purpose To reduce poverty and hunger, improve human
health and nutrition, and enhance ecosystem
resilience through high-quality international
agricultural research, partnership and leadership.
Montpellier, France
Headquarters
Main organ CGIAR Fund, CGIAR Consortium of International
Agricultural Research Centers, Independent Science
and Partnership Council
Chairperson Juergen Voegele

3. ActiveCGIAR Centers Headquarterslocation
Africa Rice Center (West Africa Rice
Development Association,WARDA)
Bouaké, Côted'Ivoire/Cotonou, Benin
BioversityInternational Maccarese, Rome, Italy
Center for InternationalForestryResearch(CIFOR) Bogor, Indonesia
InternationalCenter for TropicalAgriculture(CIAT) Cali, Colombia
International Center for Agricultural Research in the
Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Beirut, Lebanon
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-
Arid Tropics(ICRISAT)
Hyderabad(Patancheru), India
InternationalFoodPolicy Research Institute(IFPRI) Washington, D.C., UnitedStates
InternationalInstituteof Tropical Agriculture(IITA) Ibadan, Nigeria
InternationalLivestock Research Institute(ILRI) Nairobi, Kenya
International Maize and Wheat Improvement
Center
(CIMMYT)
ElBatán, Mexico State, Mexico
InternationalPotatoCenter(CIP) Lima, Peru
InternationalRiceResearch Institute(IRRI) Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
InternationalWater ManagementInstitute(IWMI) Battaramulla, SriLanka
World Agroforestry Centre (International Centre
for Research in Agroforestry,ICRAF)
Nairobi, Kenya
WorldFish Center (International Center for Living
Aquatic Resources Management, ICLARM)
Penang, Malaysia
Members of the CGIAR Consortium of International Agricultural
Research Centers

4. Programs carried out by CGIAR-supportedcenters fall into six broad categories:
1. Productivity Research Creating or adopting new technologies (such as the
"dwarf" varieties of wheat and rice that brought about Asia's and Latin
America's green revolution) to increase productivity on farmers' fields
2. Management of Natural Resources Protecting and preserving the
productivity of natural resources on which agriculture depends
3. Improving the Policy Environment Assisting developing countries to
formulate and carry out effective food, agriculture, and research policy
4. Institution Building Strengthening national agricultural research systems in
developing countries
5. Germplasm Conservation Conserving germplasm and making it available to
all regions and countries
6. Building Linkages Helping to create or strengthen linkages between
developing country institutions and other components of the global
agricultural system

5. 1) USA,
2) Canada,
3) UK,
4) Germany,
5) Switzerland, and Japan,
6) The Ford Foundation,
7) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),
8) The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD),
9) The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
10) The World Bank, The European Commission,
11) The Asian Development Bank,
12) The African Development Bank, and
13) The Fund of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC
fund).
The membership of CGIAR includes country governments,
institutions, and philanthropic foundations including

6.  CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs) are
 multi-center,
 multi-partner initiatives
 built on three core principles:
 impact on the CGIAR's four system-level objectives;
 making the most of the centers' strengths; and strong and effective partnerships.
 A new strategy and results framework was approved in 2015 and the portfolio of
research prorgams revised.
 The systems programs Dryland systems, Aquatic Agricultural Systems and
Humidtropics demised as standalone programs,
 Even though they were seen as what was new to the earlier reformed CGIAR, but
were not given a real chance to take off and prosper, mainly due to funding
reduction, but also because of a refocus on commodity value chains.
 These commodity programs were renamed to for example RTB Systems Program
or Rice Systems Program.
 Some work of the earlier systems programs got incorporated but most was lost.
CGIAR Research Programs

7. The following research programmes have now been approved (lead centers
shownin brackets):
• CCAFS - Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CIAT)
• FTA - Forests, Trees, and Agroforestry(CIFOR)
• GRiSP - A Global Rice Science Partnership (IRRI)
• Aquatic Agricultural Systems - Harnessing the Development Potential of
Aquatic Agricultural Systems for the Poor and Vulnerable (WorldFish)
• Maize (CIMMYT)
• RTB - Roots, Tubers and Bananas(CIP)
• WHEAT - Global Alliance for Improving Food Security and the Livelihoods
of the Resource-poor in the Developing World (CIMMYT)
• More Meat, Milk and Fish by and for the poor (ILRI)
• WLE - Water, Land and Ecosystems
• A4NH - Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (IFPRI)
• Dryland Cereals (ICARDA)
• Dryland Systems - Integrated agriculture systems for the poor and
vulnerable in dry areas (ICARDA)
• Humidtropics - Integrated systems for the humid tropics (IITA)
• PIM - Policies, Institutions, & Markets (IFPRI)
• Grain Legumes for Health & Prosperity