Kurzbeschreibung
(Englisch)
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International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Core contribution 2025
Projet terminé
CGIAR is a global partnership for agricultural research for a food-secure future. Its science is dedicated to poverty reduction, food and nutrition security, ecosystems management, climate adaptation and mitigation and gender equality and social inclusion. CGIAR has a singular role in providing global public goods and innovations through high-quality research. Switzerland is a founding member of CGIAR, represented in its strategic decision-making body and Swiss scientists and institutions are involved in CGIAR-led research programmes.
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Thème |
Période |
Budget |
Monde entier
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Agriculture et sécurité alimentaire
Recherche agronomique
Politique agricole
Développement agricole
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01.01.2025 - 31.12.2025
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CHF12’500’000
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| Domaine de compétences |
CGIAR is a global research partnership established in 1971. CGIAR is dedicated to science and innovation that advance the transformation towards sustainable food, land and water systems in a climate crisis. It contributes to the global efforts to address poverty, hunger, major nutrition related challenges, and environmental degradation. It is the only worldwide agricultural research partnership that has the capacity in terms of people, partners, infrastructure and a presence on the ground in over 80 countries, to work on breakthrough discovery research all the way to integrated delivery to millions of smallholder farmers. CGIAR has also a unique role, in research for development and in managing and preserving mankind’s largest gene banks of food crops, critical to advancing and sustaining productivity for the world’s smallholders in the 21st century.
The new CGIAR research and innovation strategy, the new common portfolio of science programmes and cross-cutting accelerators, and the results framework address the world’s most pressing food systems challenges and hence demonstrate how the CGIAR contributes to the SDGs.
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| Priorités stratégiques de la Suisse et de l'organisation et leur cohérence |
The clear mandate of the CGIAR is reflected in the organization’s approach to reach impact on poverty reduction, in improving nutrition, health and food security, in increasing resilience of vulnerable people to climate change, and in preserving environmental health.
CGIAR is one of the 22 multilateral priority organisations in Switzerland's International Cooperation Strategy 2025-28. Its objectives and areas of work are well aligned with the four main objectives of this Strategy and are central to implement the its mandate.
The CGIAR is a key multilateral partner of the Health and Food Section. The focus of CGIAR is fully compatible with the programmatic framework of the Health and Food Section and specifically responds to its objectives on promoting healthy nutrition and agroecological approches.
A number of Swiss scientific institutions are collaborating with the CGIAR (e.g., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich; Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Basel; University of Bern; School of Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciences (HAFL); CABI; Agroscope).
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| Résultats de l'engagement déployé à ce jour par l'organisation |
From 2022 to 2024
•CGIAR science-based innovations reached more than 20 million farmers across the 5 impact areas
•565 climate resilient crop varieties have been developed and distributed to farmers.
•In 2024, CGIAR reported the development of more than 1000 innovations, of which more than 300 were already put into use.
•In 2024, CGIAR research has influenced 196 national agricultural policies.
•Up to now, more than 50 million people in smallholder farming families in 41 countries benefit from biofortified crops.
A recent study (2024) indicates that CGIAR innovations are applied on an area covering 221 mio hectares and are generating a yearly economic benefit of 47 bio USD.
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| Résultats de l'engagement déployé à ce jour par la Suisse |
Switzerland actively supported the planning and implementation of the previous CGIAR Agroecology Initiative and lobbied successfully for the inclusion of the topic in the new science programme structure.
Switzerland advocated for the inclusion of the Fragility, Climate and Migration Initiative in the portfolio and was the first donor that supported the initiative with earmarked funding. This helped significantly to strengthen the work of CGIAR in the Humanitarian -Development-Peace Nexus.
Switzerland represented the System Council in the Financial Model Reference Group, a committee to propose a revised, improved and fit-for-purpose funding architecture. The model is currently in discussion with the System Council.
SDC suggested the calculation of imputed climate finance shares for CGIAR core contributions, with the result that CGIAR core contributions can be officially counted as international climate finance (66%) by OECD DAC from 2025 onwards.
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| Effets directs de l'engagement actuel de l'organisation |
The new CGIAR research portfolio 2025-30 (approved in autumn 2024) will support 9 large science programmes and 3 cross-cutting accelerators targeting multiple benefits across 5 impact areas defined in the 2030 Strategy: 1) nutrition, health and food security, 2) poverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs, 3) gender equality, youth and social inclusion, 4) climate adaptation and greenhouse gas reduction and 5) environmental health and biodiversity. The CGIAR will contribute to collective global targets (SDGs) for the transformation of food, land and water systems across local, regional and global levels. In support of the SDGs, specific impact pathways, and indicators will be developed for each scienceprogramme and accelerator CGIAR Innovations will contribute to:
•Lifting more than 500 million people in rural areas above the extreme poverty line and making 500 million smallholder farmers become more climate resilient.
•Offering income opportunities to more than 250 million young people.
•Empower more than 500 million women who work in land and water systems.
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| Effets directs de l'engagement actuel de la Suisse |
Switzerland will advocate for and commit to:
•A more consolidated and simplified structure of the common research portfolio to strengthen coherence and complementarity between programmes, to improve research and innovation delivery, to strengthen and simplify results and impact monitoring and the mainstreaming of innovations in practice. Switzerland will specifically lobby for strong coverage of the topics agroecology, healthy nutrition, one health, and the inclusion of fragility (Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus) in the CGIAR portfolio.
•A revised funding model for the CGIAR system that allows to increase coherence of the portfolio and better alignment between the common portfolio and bilateral funding, provides predictable and long-term funding for research programmes and entails dedicated funding streams for strategic assets such as gene banks.
•A system wide and unified and state-of-the-art ethics and business conduct policy and an adequate structure to implement the policies, to monitor performance and to prevent and deal with PSEAH and other complaint cases.
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| Direction/office fédéral responsable |
DDC
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| Partenaire de projet |
Partenaire contractuel
Institution universitaire et de recherche étrangère
- Groupe consultatif pour la recherche agricole internationale
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| Budget |
Phase en coursBudget de la SuisseCHF12’500’000Budget suisse déjà attribuéCHF12’500’000Budget de l'OrganisationCHF892’500’000Projet total depuis la première phaseBudget de la SuisseCHF236’423’480Budget y compris partenaires de projetCHF37’500’000 |
| Donateur d'ordre |
Rank 12 if all contributions, including bilateral are considered; Rank 7 if only contributions to Trust Fund are considered (2024 figures)
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| Donateurs |
Major donors include: USA, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, European Commission, Canada, Norway, Australia, India, Sweden, Belgium, Bill Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, International Fund for Agriculture Development
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| Coordination avec autres projets et acteurs |
Switzerland is an active member of the European Initiative for Agriculture Research for Development, which includes European Union Member countries, the European Commission, Norway and Switzerland, a mechanism that allows for a coordinated European voice at the System Council. Switzerland holds one of the 15 donor seats of the System Council.
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| Phases du projet |
Phase 11 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2025 (Completed)
Phase 10 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2024 (Completed)Phase 9 01.01.2020 - 31.12.2021 (Completed)Phase 8 01.01.2017 - 31.12.2019 (Completed)Phase 7 01.01.2016 - 31.12.2016 (Completed)Phase 6 01.01.2013 - 31.12.2015 (Completed) |
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