CIP is one of 15 food and environmental research centers located around the world that make up the Future Harvest Alliance. The Future Harvest Centers receive their principal funding through the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), a strategic global partnership of countries, international and regional organizations, and private foundations. Working with national agricultural research systems, the private sector and civil society, the CGIAR mobilizes agricultural science to reduce poverty, foster human well-being, promote agricultural growth, and protect the environment.
The Centers collaborate among themselves and with their diverse partners through numerous projects and system-wide programs. The CGIAR is also creating a series of independently governed partnerships among a wide range of institutions for high-impact research that targets complex issues of overwhelming global and/or regional significance. CIP has substantial participation in each of these Challenge Programs, and intends to extend this involvement to the Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Program, currently being formulated. Over the past two years, three Challenge Programs have been established: |
