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 co-sponsors. Logo of the World Bank The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, in Romance languages: BIRD), better known as the World Bank, is an international organization whose original mission was to finance the reconstruction of nations devastated by WWII. Now, its mission has expanded to fight poverty by means... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Possible meanings: Faro Airport (Portugal) Federation of Astrobiology Organizations Financial Aid Office Food and Agriculture Organization This page expands a three-character combination which might be any or all of: an abbreviation, an acronym, an initialism, a word in English, or a word in another language. ... The International Fund for Agricultural Development is an agency of the United Nations. ... The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the largest multilateral source of grant technical assistance in the world. ...

At the time there was widespread concern that developing countries would succumb to famine; the successes 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. A famine is a social and economic crisis that is commonly accompanied by widespread malnutrition, starvation, epidemic disease and increased mortality. ... The term Green Revolution is used to describe the transformation of agriculture in many developing nations that led to significant increases in cereal production between the 1940s and 1960s. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... The Pearson Commission on International Development investigated the effectiveness of the World Banks development assistance in the 20 years to 1968 and made recomendations for future operation of the organization. ... Food security is a term used in development and humanitarian aid. ...

CGIAR has 58 governmental and nongovernmental members and (currently) 15 research centres called Future Harvest Centres.

CGIAR also organises a number of inter-Center initiatives and Systemwide Programmes (SP), and Challenge Programmes (CP). The Initiatives and SPs cover cross-Center issues. The CPs are time-bound, independently-governed programs of high-impact research, executed in a partnership among a wide range of institutions. Currently there are three in operation: the Generations Challenge Programme, Harvest Plus and Water and Food. The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (known as CIAT from its Spanish-language name Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical) is a is a not-for-profit research and development organization dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger while protecting natural resources in developing countries. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 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External links

• CGIAR
• Future Harvest
• Generation Challenge Programme
• CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food
• Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC)
• ICT-KM: the CGIAR program on ICT and Knowledge Management