The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) was created by the World Bank on May 19, 1971, with the FAO, IFAD and UNDP as cosponsors.
At the time there was widespread concern that developing countries would succumb to famine; the succesess of the Green Revolution had started in Asia and the Pearson Commission on International Development had urged that the international community undertake "intensive international effort" to support "research specializing in food supplies and tropical agriculture". CGIAR was formed for the coodination of international agricultural research with the goals of poverty reduction and achieving food security in developing countries through agricultural research.
CGIAR has 58 governmental and nongovernmental members and 17 research centers called Future Harvest Centres.
| Centre
| Headquarters location
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| International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
| Cali, Colombia
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| Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
| Bogor, Indonesia
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| International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
| Mexico City, Mexico
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| International Potato Center (CIP)
| Lima, Peru
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| International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
| Aleppo, Syria
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| International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management/World Fish Center (ICLARM)
| Penang, Malaysia
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| International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF)
| Nairobi, Kenya
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| International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
| Hyderabad, India
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| International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
| Washington, D.C., United States
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| International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
| Battaramulla , Sri Lanka
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| International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
| Ibadan, Nigeria
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| International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
| Nairobi, Kenya
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| International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI)
| Rome, Italy
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| International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
| Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
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| International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR)
| The Hague, Netherlands
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| West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA)
| Bouake, Côte d'Ivoire
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| International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP)
| Montpellier, France
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