This Summary Report of Science Forum 2016 (SF16) held from 12-14 April 2016 in Addis Ababa summarizes the Plenary and Breakout sessions of the event. The objective of SF16 was to reassess the pathways...
For each of its Science Fora, the ISPC has developed a special issue journal publication to inform CGIAR research and the field at large. This Brief highlights key messages from a Special Issue...
This Brief describes the ISPC's five workstreams (Agri-Food System Innovation & Partnership, Foresight & Prioritization, Impact Assessment, Program Review, and Science Dialogue), and also highlights...
This Brief presents the ISPC's mandate to serve as an independent advisor to the CGIAR System Council on science and research matters, and outlines the ISPC's vision, mission, goals, and Theory of...
Key papers produced from the first Science Forum in 2009 were published in a special issue of Crop Science in March 2010. The Forum, held in Wageningen, The Netherlands, in 2009, focused on “Science...
A set of papers from the ISPC strategic study on conservation agriculture (CA) has been published in a special issue of Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment entitled “Evaluating conservation...
The papers in this special feature of Food Security entitled “Strengthening the links between nutrition and health outcomes and agricultural research” were inspired by a Science Forum co-hosted by the...
The papers in this special feature of PNAS highlight innovations in agriculture that could contribute to producing more food without increasing environmental pressures. The papers are based on some of...
The ISPC’s Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) jointly organized a conference on assessing the impacts of...
This brief examines the CGIAR Research Program Portfolio (CRP2) proposals to comment on the Theory of Change and Impact Pathways contained within three interlinked clusters of initiatives: Innovation...
In order to provide strategic guidance to the directions and priorities of the CGIAR - the world’s largest public sector agricultural research system – the Independent Science and Partnership Council...
As part of its assessment of the CGIAR Research Program Portfolio (CRP2) submitted in March 2016, the Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) commissioned two external reviews of gender and...
This brief provides a summary analysis of the sections of the CGIAR Research Program Portfolio (CRP2) proposals related to capacity development (CD) and assesses whether the ten elements of the...
This brief provides a summary analysis of how well the CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs) are planning the design and implementation of their partnership strategies, and how the strategic partnership...
The CSIRO Agriculture and Food & the CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) Secretariat are collaborating to explore the nature of agri-food systems innovation and impact. This...