From a dozen founding Members i 1971, the Consultative Group on InternationalAgricultural Research (CGIAR) has grown to 64 Members, including 25 industrialized countries, 22 developing countries, 5 private foundations and 12 regional and international organizations. These 64 Members provide the human, technical, intellectual and financial resources that underpin the CGIAR's global partnerships forged to improve agriculture and natural resource management in the developing world. In countries that directly benefit from CGIAR activities, government agencies, civil society organizations, private sector players and farmers' groups work with CGIAR scientists to combat poverty, hunger and environmental degradation. This report celebrates the partnerships through which demand-driven research is conducted to mold discoveries made in the laboratory and the field into international public goods. These public goods are the tools with which regional, national and local organizations - as well as individual farm families - help to foster economic growth and build more sustainable livelihoods for all. Millions of people worldwide benefit directly from CGIAR innovations and interventions, while thousands have a hand in producing the international public goods from which these benefits derive. But the process begins with the contributions of the few, the 64 Members of the CGIAR.

Text in English