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One CGIAR is a dynamic reformulation of CGIAR’s partnerships, knowledge, assets, and global presence, aiming for greater integration and impact in the face of the interdependent challenges facing today’s world.

As One CGIAR, scientific innovations for food, land and water systems can be deployed faster, at a larger scale, and at reduced cost, having greater impact where they are needed the most. This will provide our beneficiaries around the world with more sustainable ways to grow, catch, transport, process, trade, and consume safe and nutritious food.

A unified One CGIAR comprises of:

1. A sharper mission statement and impact focus to 2030, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
2. Unified governance under a ‘One CGIAR Common Board’;
3. Institutional integration, including more aligned management under an empowered Executive Management Team, common policies and services, and a unified country and regional presence;
4. A new research modality; as well as
5. More, and pooled, funding.

The growing pace of change and the challenges it brings exceed CGIAR’s ability to respond. Our composition as a partnership of more than a dozen independently focused and operating Research Centers has begun to hold us back. We need a broader and deeper integration of our assets and operations.

Threats to food, nutrition, and water security posed by climate change and other challenges are not new, but are becoming increasingly complex and pressing, requiring new approaches. The COVID-19 pandemic further highlights the need for a food systems response.

Fragmentation of the research agenda has limited the potential of science to help achieve global goals of ending poverty and hunger by 2030.

https://www.cgiar.org/food-security-impact/one-cgiar/