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Season’s Greetings and Welcome to the New CGIAR Advisory Services Website
The aim of this website is to share information from three crucial independent advisory services serving CGIAR. The site provides access to a wea...
Can Diffusion Strategies Adapted to the Characteristics of CGIAR Innovations Enhance and Sustain Uptake?
A call for cases for learning-oriented impact studies* Background and scope of the call The CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) ...
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, ...
New Window for Expressions of Interest for Impact Studies
Estimating the long-term, large-scale impacts of CGIAR research on development outcomes SPIA has re-opened the window for submissions of ...
Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Intensification - New SPIA Call for Expressions of Interest
SPIA is pleased to announce a call for Expressions of Interest for studies of "The environmental impacts of agricultural intensification". We hav...
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...
How Data Collected To Identify Cassava Varieties in Vietnam Helped Southeast Asia Respond Rapidly To a Viral Disease Outbreak
This post was co-written by Ricardo Labarta (Senior Scientist & Impact Assessment Research Leader, CIAT), Wilmer Cuellar (Virologist, CI...
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...
From Land Productivity to Labor Productivity – Interview with SPIA Chair Karen Macours
Not all of CGIAR’s objectives are maximized by increasing yield alone; if we want to address rural poverty we need to increase income, income...
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,...