Grants and Contributions

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to CGIAR. CGIAR uses these funds and other donors’ funding to achieve its mandate, which is to reduce poverty and hunger, improve human health and nutrition, and enhance ecological resilience through high-quality international agriculture research, partnership and leadership.

Project activities of CGIAR include: supporting the resilient, low-emission farms, landscapes, and aquatic resources of 38 million small-scale producers and value chain actors; development of 100 climate and sectoral policies; supporting investment of USD 15 billion; and contributing to emissions reductions or removal of 1 gigaton of CO2e by supporting equitable mitigation action at scale.

The Biodiversity for Resilient Ecosystems in Agricultural Landscapes (B-REAL) project aims to conserve and restore biodiversity in intensively farmed, climate-stressed regions of Colombia, Kenya and Peru. The project integrates biodiversity practices into agriculture, involving women as producers and traditional knowledge holders in the co-design of intervention. It also promotes nutritious and underutilized local crops to improve farmers’ incomes. This funding is part of Canada’s commitment made at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in December 2022 in Montreal. It aligned with the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils, one of the Group of Seven (G7) Apulia Food Security Initiatives. Project activities include: (1) co-creating biodiversity interventions; (2) implementing technologies through demonstration plots, tree nurseries, community seed banks, and training programs; and (3) conducting gender-responsive market assessments and using market incentives for conservation.

This grant represents Canada's institutional support to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

CGIAR uses these funds, along with other donors funding, to achieve its mandate. CGIAR’s mandate is to reduce poverty and hunger, improve human health and nutrition, and enhance ecological resilience through high-quality international agriculture research, partnership and leadership. Research is carried out by 15 member centers of the CGIAR Consortium, in close collaboration with hundreds of partners, including national and regional research institutes, civil society organizations, academia, development organizations, and the private sector. Canada’s support to the CGIAR contributes to reduce rural poverty, increase food security, improve human health and nutrition, and promote sustainable management of natural resources.

This grant represents Canada's institutional support to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research’s (CGIAR) Generating Evidence and New Directions for Equitable Results (GENDER) Platform. CGIAR uses these funds, along with other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate. This initiative supports CGIAR’s efforts to put gender equality and women’s empowerment at the forefront of global agricultural research for development by leveraging, synthesizing, and filling evidence gaps in its work on gender and climate change, and developing options to integrate gender within climate-focused projects and policies.

CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food-secure future. The CGIAR Consortium’s 15 Centers carry out research in close collaboration with partners, including national and regional research institutes, civil society organizations, academia, and the private sector. CGIAR’s mandate is to advance agri-food science and innovation to reduce poverty, hunger, and environmental degradation in line with the Sustainable Development Goals. As of late 2020, CGIAR’s refocused mission is to deliver science and innovation that advance the transformation of food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis.

P001287001: This grant represents Canada’s institutional support to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure future. CGIAR uses these funds, along with other donor funding, to achieve its mandate.

CGIAR’s mandate is to advance agri-food science and innovation for a world free of poverty, hunger, and environmental degradation.