This report summarizes findings from an ISPC Foresight Study asking what urbanization and farm size and other major trends imply for CGIAR agricultural research priorities. The study is based on 5...
This paper identifies issues for livestock research emerging from urbanization and changing farm size in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. It highlights the strong past and the expected, although somewhat...
The present study “Natural Resources Management: Challenges and Way Forward for the New CGIAR – a Stripe Review” is designed to provide CGIAR leadership, centers, and donors with perspectives on the...
The NRM Research Stripe Review, for which the ISPC developed the Executive Summary on the basis of the Panel’s inputs, seeks to identify conceptual and operational issues that still require attention...
This brief highlights the insights and recommendations from a joint A4NH/ISPC workshop on nutrition held in September 2014. The two-day workshop was organized as a follow-up to the 2013 Science Forum...
This brief outlines the context and the existing evidence base, together with priority research areas and key issues identified by participants at the 2013 Science Forum as those which CGIAR needs to...
This brief highlights the key insights from the 2011 Science Forum to help guide future decisions within the CGIAR.
The ISPC reviewed 13 CRP pre-proposals and nine EoIs for four Cross-Cutting Platforms between 17 August and 28 September, (also drawing on reviews by external experts and referring to reviews of Phase...
ISPC Commentary on the Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) Phase II Preproposal (2017-2022)
ISPC Assessment of the revised proposal for the Genebank Platform phase 2 (2017-2022)
ISPC Assessment of the Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) CRP-II revised proposal (2017-2022)
ISPC Assessment of the Fish Agri-Food System (FISH) CRP-II revised proposal (2017-2022)
ISPC Assessment of the Platform on Big Data revised proposal (2017-2022)
ISPC Assessment of the Excellence in Breeding Platform (EiB) revised proposal (2017-2022)
This report examines at the challenges and opportunities for measuring environmental impacts from agricultural research; summarizes experience from four recent case-studies led by CGIAR Centers; and...