The CGIAR is a strategic
alliance of members, partners and international agricultural
centers that mobilizes science to benefit the poor.
Photo: Stevie Mann
May 2009
Revisiting the Global Food Price Crisis
At about this time last year, a massive wave of concern over drastic increases in global food prices crested and then seemed to recede, as storm clouds gathered on the wider economic horizon. Does that mean the food crisis is over? Or has concern about food security simply been swamped by greater fears over the consequences of a prolonged global economic recession? Read more...
Understanding and Containing Global Food Price Inflation.
Soaring food prices have put the CGIAR on high alert, and the international research Centers it supports are responding vigorously on several fronts. Read more.
Global Climate Change: Can Agriculture Cope?
No one understands better than farmers how the weather, especially when it takes a turn for the worse, can affect people and their land. That’s why farmers around the world have always talked and worried about the weather obsessively. But now, emerging weather patterns have a lot of other people worried, too. Read more..