Seeking New Members for the Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC)
CGIAR is seeking eminent and passionate candidates to join its Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC) – a standing panel of imparti...
Vacancy Announcement: Senior Officer, ISDC
Vacancy Announcement: Senior Officer, Independent Science for Development Council - CGIAR Advisory Services Shared Secretariat The newly forme...
Call for Expressions of Interest: ISDC Consultancy
Food and Agriculture Systems Trade-off Report for One CGIAR Timeline: 15 April to 29 May 2020 Proposals Due: 6 March 2020&nb...
Delivering Actionable Science Advice to the CGIAR System at a Time of Transition and Change – The ISDC Induction and Planning Retreat
Since the creation of the Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC) in 2019 as the renewed CGIAR science advisory body, the Council cond...
Vacancy Announcement: Senior Manager - Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC)
The newly formed CGIAR Advisory Services (CAS) Secretariat, hosted at Bioversity International in Rome, is recruiting for a Senior Manager, ...
Use of Targeted Genome Editing
CGIAR can play a role both in the development of crops and in the regulation because if we don’t have regulation approval, then this technolo...
Working with Universities in Developing Countries
The SDGs require a common effort, everybody has a role. In this video interview, Nighisty Ghezae, Director of the International Fou...
From Knowledge Embedded Technologies to Knowledge Intensive Technologies
The way I see CGIAR evolving is to become a knowledge broker and to partner very strategically with all of the other organizations that are now...
It's Time for a Change in the Breeding Mindset
Today the challenge has changed: We need to address an ever growing population, under a different climate that keeps changing, and with people ...
Pathways from Agricultural Research to Poverty Reduction: A Bigger Set of ‘Food Systems’ Thinking is Required
In this interview, Tom Tomich, ex-ISPC member and Professor and Director, Agricultural Sustainability Institute, University of California, Davis,...
CGIAR Positioning and Comparative Advantage Looking Ahead
Global changes in the areas of agricultural research for development and beyond have wide-ranging implications for CGIAR. In this video interview...
Staple Crop Yields Alone Will Not Solve Poverty
An exclusive focus on improving staple crop yields in developing countries is increasingly questioned as an effective pathway out of poverty for ...