As CGIAR implements its One CGIAR reform, ISDC can play an important role by helping to ensure that CGIAR research is of high quality and has a clear path to impact for development outcomes. Using the...
This study provides guidance to agricultural researchers wanting to integrate DNA fingerprinting of crop varieties into their field research. The authors draw on experience from a number of...
CGIAR Advisory Services include the activities of the Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC), the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA), and the external evaluation function. The...
The ISDC 2020 workplan focuses on CGIAR System Council’s request for thought-leadership to the System on trade-offs. Responsible science takes time. The research and analysis underpinning ISDC’s...
Ricardo Labarta is a Principal Scientist working with the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) and the technical lead for scoping and designing causal impact assessments of CGIAR research. He is...
The CGIAR portfolio spans a wide spectrum of research, development, and policy engagement activities, involving a multitude of disciplines and approaches, and a large set of causal pathways, and...
ISDC leads various rigorous, science-based activities guided by the principle of independence to support the One CGIAR reform. The 2020 approved workplan focuses on delivering thought-leadership to...
In early 2020 the CGIAR Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC) commissioned foresight reviews and a trade-off analysis report. The goal of the research was to provide ISDC members with an...
Food systems rely on the environment for inputs such as land, water, and genetic materials. At the same time, poor management of agricultural land, freshwater, and marine resources and the continuing...
Agricultural and food systems in the next 20 to 30 years will face substantial change. Numerous forces such as demographic waves, technological change, disease, climate change, and economic and...