Climate Change Data

CGIAR (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research)

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2023)

Reporting Period: 2023

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Nutrition
  • Health
  • Food Security
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
  • Gender
  • Livelihoods

Environmental Achievements

  • Improved parboiling technology increases women’s income and nutrition in Africa
  • 548 field-ready climate solutions were shared to help smallholders adapt to climate change and reduce emissions from agriculture
  • Development of climate-resilient potato varieties for tropical environments

Social Achievements

  • Genetically improved tilapia supports Nigeria’s aquaculture goals
  • Demand-led approaches boost common bean access in Zambia
  • Policies help governments navigate the cost-of-living challenge
  • Advancing food systems transformation in Viet Nam
  • Introducing Three New Bean Varieties to Enhance Food Security for Colombian Coffee-growing Families
  • Transforming Liberia's Agriculture: EU & Government Applaud Africarice's Successful DeSIRA Project
  • Dumplings and Development: Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural
  • Scaling up health diet seed kits in Zanzibar
  • Exciting news for potato lovers in Vietnam: Introducing HCIP210 a result of a successful public-private partnership between CIP and HZPC
  • Growing Food Against the Odds: The iNASHR Success Story | ICARDA
  • Transforming Ethiopia’s Agriculture Through Agronomy Innovation: The Landscape Segmented Fertilizer Advisory
  • Assessing the Health Risks and Nutritional Dynamics of Thriving Dairy Value Chains in Eastern DRC
  • Milking it: Boosting and Professionalizing Kenya’s Informal Dairy Sector
  • IRRI Reveals Scientific Breakthrough for Low and Ultra-low Glycaemic Index Rice
  • Protecting and promoting traditional foods one woman at a time
  • Fish in School Meals: A nutritious initiative for children in Timor-Leste

Governance Achievements

  • Formalized partnerships with sub-regional organizations, NARIs, governments, the private sector, and development agencies
  • Launched the ASEAN-CGIAR Innovate for Food Program (IFRP)
  • Developed a new product development approach to focus new digital and data products on value, impact, and problem-solving

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Levels of hunger and malnutrition continued to increase and temperatures rose, with 2023 the hottest year on record
  • Extreme weather, conflict, environmental degradation affected food, land, and water systems
  • Ongoing conflicts in Palestine and Sudan hinder the development of resilient food systems in CWANA
  • Shorter and less predictable growing seasons hinder the region's ability to harness agriculture's full potential for sustained economic growth
Mitigation Strategies
  • Developed and implemented various innovations and projects changing lives and delivering returns on funder investments
  • Launched the “With Science We Can” campaign and investment case at COP28, securing pledges of over $900 million
  • Reshaped strategic vision to better tackle CWANA’s climate-driven challenges through ICARDA’s 2030 Research and Innovation Strategy
  • Leveraging CGIAR’s extensive network to ensure tangible impacts on the ground
  • Using different approaches to unleash the transformative power of partnerships in advancing food security and sustainable agri-food systems

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • extreme weather

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 1
  • SDG 2
  • SDG 13
  • SDG 14
  • SDG 15

CGIAR advances the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by targeting five key Impact Areas: Nutrition, Climate change, Environment, Gender, Livelihoods.

Awards & Recognition

  • Norman Borlaug Field Award
  • Food Planet Prize
  • Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech
  • Order of the Rising Sun, Gold, and Silver Star
  • Africa Food Prize
  • Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Awards
  • David and Betty Hamburg Award for Science Diplomacy
  • Ethiopian Academy of Sciences Induction
  • FAO NENA Soil Partnership
  • Foundation for Innovation in Healthy Food: Heroes Award
  • GLASSNET Early Career Research Grant
  • Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development (ISPRD): Excellence Award in the Field of Pulses Improvement
  • International Soil Science Award
  • Korean Presidential Citation
  • National Project Management Excellence Awards, Award for Excellence
  • Neville Clarke Award
  • Seed Association of Mali (ASSEMA) Certificate of Appreciation
  • UNDP Mahatma Award for Biodiversity
  • World Rice Industry Global Service Award